Note 643 — PHOTIUS BIBLIOTHECA OR MYRIOBIBLON⁠[6] (continued 5)

“Members” (κῶλα, membra), as distinct from “clauses” (κόμματα, incisa). The original distinction is one of length, 4 to 6 syllables being a “clause,” 7 to 10 a “member” (cp. the use of our own comma and colon). According to Quintilian, incisum is a complete sense in which the numbers or rhythm are not yet complete, membrum is a complete sense and a complete rhythm, but while perfect as a limb, in relation to its body (the given whole of which it forms part) it is incomplete and has no meaning (see Sandys on Cicero, Orator, 212).