Note 24 — Chapter IV · POETIC, OLD AND NEW (FIFTH TO SEVENTH CENTURIES)
Reading edition
Recognition of the two methods of verse may be indicated by a line of Fortunatus,
Quæque sunt rythmis vel amica metris,
in stanza 11 of Carm. IX. vii (MGH, page 212); but the two words are not necessarily used with the distinction that is clear in Bede (below, in next paragraph).