Babrius 16

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Babrius 16

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νομίσας ἔμεινεν ὡς ἕτοιμα δειπνήσων
There is some irregularity in this line: the - ας is probably elided to fit the metre.
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Babrius very frequently puts an anapest (short short long) on the first foot. You can imagine those first two shorts resolving to make the foot a spondee, which is one of the allowed first feet.

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Even in 5th-cent. tragedy anapests are acceptable in the first foot (especially in Euripides), and in Babrius there is no inhibition against them there (unlike in the other feet).
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ok got it thanx
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