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Auſtin, is not my Invention, but the Practice
of the Antients; and, as in Hexameter Iambics, there is the fame
cæfural Diviſion, this Verfe is divided, as the Heroic, into 5 and 7 half
Feet, and this Beginning with half a Foot turns the Feet of the
Iambic Verfe into Trochees: but, if it ſhould happen, that in the Di-
vifion of Verfe, both Parts of the divided Verfe cannot have an unequal
Number of half Feet, as in trochaic Tetrameter catalect, which con-
fifts of 15 half Feet, then the first Diviſion of this Verſe will be eight
half Feet, and the 2d feven, as
Roma, Roma, cerne quanta | fit Deum Benignitas.
this Verfe begins with a whole Foot, but ends in half a Foot, and the
eighth Syllable fhould always end a Word.