mencement of the next--however short, and almost imper-
ceptible, the pause may be--gives nevertheless an additional
length of time to the final of the furmer : and we per-
fectly well know, that, in Greek and Latin poetry, that little
pause frequently produces a dactyl or a spondee from syllables
which, to an inexperienced prosod lan, would appear to make
only a tribrachvs in the former case, in the latter an Iambus, as I
have shown in my " Latin Prosody.
ceptible, the pause may be--gives nevertheless an additional
length of time to the final of the furmer : and we per-
fectly well know, that, in Greek and Latin poetry, that little
pause frequently produces a dactyl or a spondee from syllables
which, to an inexperienced prosod lan, would appear to make
only a tribrachvs in the former case, in the latter an Iambus, as I
have shown in my " Latin Prosody.
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