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"Quei apice insigne dialis | flaminis gesistei mors perfecit tua ut essent | omnia brevia honos fama virtusque | gloria atque ingenium: quibus sei in longa licui | set tibi utier vita facile factis superasses | gloriam maiorum. quare lubens te in gremiu | Scipio recipit terra, Publi, prognatum | Publio Corneli." The last which will be quoted here is that of L. Corn.
It is a succession of trochaic beats, six in all, preceded by a single syllable, as in the instance quoted by Macaulay: "The | queen was in her chamber eating bread and honey," So in the Scipionic epitaph, "Qui | bus si in longa licuiset tibi utier vita." These are, doubtless, the purest form of the measure. In these there is no break, but an even continuous flow of trochaic rhythm.
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