But the comic senarius, styled trochaic, contains a number of pyrrhics and trochees, which others call tribrachs, but loses in dignity what it gains in speed,En, impero Argis, sceptra mi liquit Pelops.
From an unknown tragedian. 1
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Consequently, where necessary, we must
borrow the pompous effect produced by the spondees
and iambi which compose the greater portion of the
rhythms of tragedy, as in the line,
1 “Lo, I am lord at Argos, where to me I Pelops the sceptre left.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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