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But if we choose to speak in a succession of short clauses, we stop, and when it is necessary, we easily and frequently separate ourselves from that sort of march which is apt to excite dislike; but nothing ought to be so rhythmical as this, which is the least visible and the most efficacious. Of this kind is that sentence which was spoken by Crassus: "Missos faciant patronos; ipsi prodeant."
A full period, then, is generally composed of four parts, which may be compared to as many hexameter verses, each of which have their proper points, or particles of continuation, by which they are connected so as to form a perfect period. Such is the following passage in Crassus: "Missos faciant patronos; ipsi prodeant." "Let them dismiss their patrons: let them answer for themselves."
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