HEPHTHEMIMERIS

HEPHTHEMIMERIS, or Hepthemimeres, 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 Hepthemimeris. As in that verse of Virgil,

Et furtis agitatus amor, et conscia 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 niveum molli sultus Hyacintho.

This is not a hepthemimeris cæsuræ, but a henneameris, i. e. of nine half feet.