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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2010
Metrum quid est? Rei cuiusque mensura. Metrum poeticum quid est? Versificandi disciplina certa syllabarum ac temporum ratione in pedibus observata. Metrum unde dictum? Quod veluti mensuram quondam praestituat, a qua siquid plus minusve erit, pes sive versus minime constabit. Metro quid videtur esse consimile? Rhythmus. Rhythmus quid est? Verborum modulata compositio non metrica ratione, sed numerosa scansione ad iudicium aurium examinata, ut puta veluti sunt cantica poetarum vulgarium. Rhythmus ergo in metro non est? Potest esse. Quid ergo distat a metro? Quod rhythmus per se sine metro esse potest, metrum sine rhythmo esse non potest. quod liquidius ita definitur, metrum est ratio cum modulatione, rhythmus sine ratione metrica modulatio. plerumque tamen casu quodam etiam invenies rationem metricam in rhythmo, non artificii observatione servata, sed sono et ipsa modulatione ducente.
Pes quid est? Compositio duarum vel trium aut etiam quattuor syllabarum secundum rationem sui cuiusque metri. Pedum genera quot sunt? Duo. Quae? Aut, enim simplices sunt aut duplices. Simplicium species quot sunt? Duae. Quae? Disyllabi aut trisyllabi. Disyllabi quot sunt? Quattuor. Qui sunt? Spondeus pyrrichius trochaeus iambus. Ex his qui inter se contrarii? Pyrrichius spondeo, trochaeus iambo. Qui deinde est pariambus? Idem qui pyrrichius sive etiam dibrachus. Qui chorius? Idem qui trochaeus. Spondeus cuius modi syllabis constat? Duabus longis, [exemplum] ut heros. Pyrrichius cuius modi syllabis constat? Duabus brevibus, [exemplum] ut Maro Cato. Trochaeus cuius modi syllabis constat?
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