Note 14 — Chapter VII · LATIN POETIC IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES
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Latius ut curras, sit apostropha quarta morarum Qua rem detineas et ubi spatieris ad horam. 264.
Septima succedit prægnans Descriptio verbis, Ut dilatet opus. 554.
A hundred lines later Geoffrey can still say:
Restat adhuc aliud quod linguam reddit opimam.
So certain is he of dilation as the mode of poetry that he demands support for it even of Horace.
Multiplice forma Dissimuletur idem; varius sis et tamen idem. 224.
The doctrine is no less insistent in his prose treatise, also printed in F. See especially II. 2. A. (F 271-284).