Note 19 — INTRODUCTION. GENERAL VIEW OF THE ORIGIN OF ROMANTIC POETRY AND ELOQUENCE, IN THE KINGDOMS OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.
Thomasina Ross translation
Among others, Sarmiento, who in support of this opinion, quotes some verses from Virgil, for example: Inter viburna cupressi—Tondenti barba cadebat, &c. These verses have, it is true, eight syllables, but not four trochaic feet.