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Andit may also, in
addition to the anapaest and cretic, be preceded by
the iambus, which is a syllable less in length than
both of them, thus making one short syllable precede three long. But it is also perfectly correct to
place a spondee before an iambus, as in armis fui, or
it may be preceded by a bacchius instead of a spondee,
e.g. in armis fui,1 thereby making the last foot a
dochmiac.
1 pro Lig. iii. 9. “I was in arms.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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