Editing Choliamb (section)

==Latin==

The Roman poet [[Catullus|Catullus']] [[wikisource:Translation:Catullus 8|poems 8]], [[wikisource:Translation:Catullus 22|22]] and [[wikisource:Translation:Catullus 39|39]] serve as examples of choliambic verse.

:{{lang|la|miser Catulle, dēsinās ineptīre}}
:{{lang|la|et quod vidēs perīsse perditum dūcās}}
:{{lang|la|fulsēre quondam candidī tibī sōlēs,}}
:{{lang|la|cum ventitābās quō puella dūcēbat}}
:{{lang|la|amāta nōbīs quant(um) amābitur nūlla.}} (Catullus, 8.1–5)

:"Wretched Catullus, you should stop being foolish,
:and what you see has perished, you should consider it lost.
:Once suns shone brightly for you
:when you used to go wherever your girl led you,
:loved by us as much as no girl will ever be loved."

Occasionally, one of the first three {{lang|la|longa}} in the line may be [[resolution (meter)|resolved]] into two short syllables, but this is rare.<ref name=Rav>Raven, D. S. (1965), ''Latin Metre'', p. 62.</ref> There is usually a caesura or word-break after either the 5th or the 7th syllable.

In later poets, such as [[Persius]], [[Martial]], and [[Ausonius]], resolution was used more freely, in any of the first four {{lang|la|longa}}, and sometimes the first foot might be an anapaest (u u –).<ref name=Rav />