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There is also
something in the fact that in the passages from
Cicero two feet are contained in one word, a
practice which even in verse produces an unduly
effeminate effect, and that not merely when the line
ends with a five-syllable word as in fortissima
Tyndaridarum1
but also in four-syllable endings such
[p. 545]
as Appnnino,2 armamentis3 and Oreione.4
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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