HEPHTHEMIMERIS, or Hephthemimeres, is also a cæsuræ after the third foot; that is, on the seventh half-foot. It is a rule, that this syllable, though it be short in itself, must be made long on account of the cæsuræ, or to make it an hephthemimeris. As in that verse of Virgil.
Et furis agitatus amor, et cœsuræ virtus.
It may be added, that the cæsuræ is not to be on the fifth foot, as it is in the verse which Dr Harris gives us for an example:
Ille latus nivem molli fultus Hyacintho.
This is not a hephthemimeris cæsuræ, but a henneamimeris, i. e. of nine half feet.