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The same is true of the paean composed of the
choreus and a pyrrhic, a foot which is regarded as
specially suitable to the beginning of a sentence, or
of the other paean, formed of three shorts followed
by a long, to which the conclusion is specially
dedicated. It is of these two forms that writers on
rhythm generally speak. Some, however, call all
feet containing three short syllables and a long by
the name of paean, irrespective of the position of
the long syllable, and merely taking into account the
total number of time-lengths that it contains.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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