The work is known only by its title, Fragments on Poetic metres. No description, content, or quotations from this specific treatise survive. The title indicates it was a grammatical or metrical analysis of poetic metres, part of a common scholarly genre in Hellenistic and later antiquity.
Based on its title and genre, the treatise would have addressed:
The work is lost, with its existence attested solely by its title. No manuscript tradition or fragments were located in the sources consulted; the title may be preserved in a medieval catalogue.
While its direct influence cannot be traced, the work exemplifies the extensive body of ancient metrical scholarship that systematized the study of Greek poetry and influenced its transmission and teaching for centuries.
ἄλλος
τῶν αὖ Πρωτεσίλαος ἀρήιος ἡγεμόνευε,
τῷ δʼ ἅμα τεσσαράκοντα μέλαιναι νῆες ἕποντο.
ἄλλον
ἡνίκʼ ἂν ᾖ σπονδεῖος ὁ δεξιός, ἄν τε τροχαῖος
σὺν τούτῳ, κατʼ ἴαμβον ἐνόπλιος ὣς κελαδεῖται.
διάκειται.
κρητικὸν ἐὰν προσθῇς πόδα τῷ τριμέτρῳ, τετράμετρος
γίνεται ἐν ῥυθμῷ τε τροχαίῳ κλίνεται οὗτος.
εἶδος δʼ αὐτοῦ ἐγὼ δείξω, σὺ δὲ μάνθανʼ ἀκούων·
εἶα νῦν, ἐπεὶ σχολὴ πάρεστι, παῖ Μενοιτίου.
