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In Latin and Greek poetry, correption (; Latin ''correptiō'' (:korˈreptɪoː) "a shortening") is the shortening of a long vowel at the end of one word before a short vowel at the beginning of the next. Vowels next to each other in neighboring words are in hiatus. Homer uses correption in dactylic hexameter: * Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσε· — Odyssey * Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered full many ways after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy. — (translation by A.T. Murray ) Here the sequence η ε in bold must be pronounced as ε ε to preserve the ''long—short—short'' syllable weight sequence of a dactyl. Thus, the scansion of the second line is thus: | | | | | ==Attic Correption== Typically in Homeric meter a syllable is scanned long or "closed" when a vowel is followed by two or more consonants. However, in Attic Greek, a short vowel followed by a plosive and a liquid consonant or nasal stop remains a short or "open" syllable. This is called Attic Correption. Therefore, the first syllable of a word like δάκρυ (ᾰ) could be scanned "δά | κρυ" (open/short), exhibiting Attic correption, or "δάκ | ρυ" (closed/long) in keeping with the conventions of Homeric verse. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Correption」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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