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such
as are provided by the pyrrhic or the choreus (e.g.
[p. 571]
mea facilitas, nostra facilitas); on the other hand, if
it be preceded by a spondee, we have the conclusion
of an iambic trimeter, as indeed we have in the paean
considered alone. The opposite form of paean is
deservedly commended as an opening: for the first
syllable gives it stability and the next three speed.
None the less I think that there are other feet
which are better suited for this purpose than even
this paean.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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