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iique, si non
ternas syllabas habebunt, repetendi erunt (absit
enim1 poetica observatio), neque minus duobus;
alioqui pes erit, non numerus. potest tamen vel
unus esse dichoreus, si unus est, qui constat e duobus
choreis.
1 absit enim, Christ: sit tam, AG.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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