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This is especially the case with the
senarnis or octonarius.1 In Aliica fuisse is the opening of a senarius and closes the first clause of the pro
Ligario: esse videatur, with which we are now only
too familiar as a conclusion, is the beginning of an
ocionarius. Similar effects are to be found in Demosthenes, as for example πᾶσι καὶ πάσαις and πᾶσιν ὑμῖν
and throughout almost the whole exordium of that
speech.2 The ends of verses are also excellently
suited to the beginning of a period:
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