Note 46 — Chapter VII · LATIN POETIC IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES
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The ignoring of the quantity of an unstressed syllable appears in such rimes as chórīs with salvatórĭs, vītā with levítă. Every dissyllable stresses the penult (Alexander de Villedieu, Doctrinale, 2299); and the disregard of quantity is even more marked in calling it indifferently a spondee. See below, Chapter VIII, note 44.