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inania quoque tempora
rhythmi facilius accipient, quanquam haec et ut
metris accidunt. maior tamen illic licentia est, ubi
tempora etiam auimo1 metiuntur et pedum et
digitorum ictu, et intervalla signant quibusdam notis
atque aestimant, quot breves illud spatium habeat;
inde τετράσημοι, πεντάσημοι deinceps longiores fiunt
percussiones; nam σημεῖον tempus est unum.
1 Bracketed by Christ.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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