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But in verses the matter is more evident. And some of our countrymen are like them. Like that line in Thyestes: "Quemnam te esse dicam, qui tarda in senectute" ... And so on; for except when the flute-player is at hand to accompany them, those verses are very like prose.
But in verse the use of number is more obvious; though some particular species of it, without the assistance of music, have the air of harmonious prose, and especially the lyric poetry, and that even the best of the kind, which, if divested of the aid of music, would be almost as plain and naked as common language. "Quemnam te esse dicam? qui in tarda senectute;
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