Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, chapter 4, section 49

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[49] neque solum alium pro alio pedem metrorum ratio non recipit, sed ne dactylum quidem aut forte spondeum alterum pro altero. itaque si quinque continuos dactylos, ut sunt ut illo

panditur interea domus omnipotentis Olympi

confundas, solveris versum.

Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.

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