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nec tamen ipse dissimulat, quibusdam
numeros videri non pedes; neque immerito; quidquid est enim supra tris syllabas, id est ex pluribus
pedibus. ergo cum constent quattuor pedes binis,
octo ternis, spondeum longis duabus, pyrrhichium,
quem alii pariambum vocant, brevibus, iambum brevi
longaque, huic contrarium e longa et brevi choreum,
non ut alii trochaeum nominemus.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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