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Updated: May 21, 2025
Disputes require rapidity; slowness is better suited to explanations. But a period is terminated in many ways; one of which has gained especial favour in Asia, which is called the dichoreus, when the two last feet are chorei, consisting each of one long and one short syllable; for we must explain that the same feet have different names given them by different people.
Now that dichoreus is not inherently defective as part of a clause, but in the rhythm of an orator there is nothing so vicious as to have the same thing constantly recurring. By itself now and then it sounds very well, on which account we have the more reason to guard against satiety.
After these clauses everything is sustained by a longer class of sentences, as if they were erected on these as their pedestal: "Depressam, caecam, jacentem domum pluris, quam te, et quam fortunas tuas, aestimâsti." It is ended with a dichoreus; but the next sentence terminates with a double spondee.
Then comes the conclusion: "Quicunque eam violavissent ab omnibus esse ei poenas persolutas." Here is the dichoreus; for it does not signify whether the last syllable is long or short. Then comes, "Patris dictum sapiens, temeritas filii comprobavit." And this last dichoreus excited such an outcry as to be quite marvellous. I ask, was it not the rhythm which caused it?
In this matter we have to acknowledge that he, as a Roman, had to deal with instruments for listening infinitely finer than are our British ears; and I am not sure that we can follow him with rapture into all the mysteries of the Poeon, the Dochmius, and the Dichoreus.
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