Next, the lightness and variety is often greatly increased by the use of “resolved”[860] (or broken-up) feet. Each long syllable being regarded as equal to two “shorts,” it follows that the iambus can be “resolved” into ⏑⏑⏑, the spondee into –⏑⏑, ⏑⏑– (and ⏑⏑⏑⏑, but this last is not employed in iambics). Of these three the tribrach (⏑⏑⏑) is much the most frequent. As it corresponds to the iambus, it can occur in any place, save the sixth; it is exceedingly rare in the fifth place:— – – ⏑ ⏑ ⏑ – – ⏑ – – – ⏑ – φαιδρωπ|_ον εδιδ_|ου τοισ|ιν Αιγ|ισθου | φιλοις (_Orestes_, 894). ⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ ⏑ – – ⏑ – περιξ | εγω | καλυψ|_α βοτρυ_|ωδει | χλοῃ (_Bacchæ_, 12). The dactyl (–⏑⏑) is allowed in those places to which the spondee is admitted, save the fifth (just as the tribrach is excluded from the sixth). Thus:— – – ⏑ – – ⏑ ⏑ ⏑ – – – ⏑ – ου φασ|ι πρωτ|_ον Δανα_|ον Αιγ|υπτῳ | δικας (_Orestes_, 872). ⏑ – ⏑ – – ⏑ ⏑ ⏑ – – – ⏑ – λογους | ελισσ|_ων οτι_ | καθιστ|αιη | νομους (_Ibid._, 892). It is rare in the first foot. Least common of all is the anapæst (⏑⏑–), which appears only in the first foot, unless it is contained entirely in a proper name, when it can occur in any place save the sixth. This license is due to necessity: such a name as Ἀντῐγόνη could not otherwise be introduced into iambics at all. Examples:— ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑– ⏑ – ⏑ – – – ⏑ – _στεφανους_ | δρυος | τε μιλ|ακος τ|ανθεσφ|ορου (_Bacchæ_, 703). – – ⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑⏑ – ⏑ – δεσποιν|α γαρ | κατ οικ|ον Ερμ|_ιονην_ | λεγω (_Androm._, 804). Occasionally a line is to be found with two or even three resolved feet:— – – ⏑ ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ – λουτροισ|ιν αλοχ|ου περι|πεσων | πανυστ|ατοις (_Orestes_, 367). – ⏑ ⏑ ⏑ – – ⏑ ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ – μητερα | το σωφρ|ον τ ελαβ|εν αντ|ι συμφ|ορας (_Ibid._, 502). ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ – αναδελφ|ος απατ|ωρ αφιλ|ος ει | δε σοι | δοκει (_Ibid._, 310). Two licenses should be noted. The last syllable of the line may be short; no doubt the pause[861] at the end was felt to help it out. Lines of this kind are innumerable, _e.g._:— ⏑⏑ Κρατος Βια τε σφῳν μεν εντολη | Διος (_Prom. Vinctus_, 12) (which is followed by a vowel—ἔχει). It matters little whether such syllables are marked as short, as long, or with the sign of doubtful quantity ( ᷋). Next, synizesis (συνίζησις, “collapse”) occurs now and then—two syllables coalesce and are scanned as one, _e.g._ μ̅η̅ ̅ο̅υ̅, πολε̅ω̅ς:— – – ⏑ – – – ⏑ – – – ⏑ – αλλ _εα_ | με και | την εξ | εμου | δυσβουλ|ιαν (_Antigone_, 95). – ⏑ – – ⏑ ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ – ως _μ̅η̅ ̅ε̅ι̅δ̅_|οθ ητ|ις μ ετεκ|εν εξ | οτου τ|εφυν (_Ion_, 313).