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For questions regarding caesura, a certain kind of pause in ancient poetry. Consider using also broader tags about poetry or poetic meters.

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Principal caesura in unus erat toto line I.6 of Ovid's Metamorphoses

The principal caesura is after the first long syllable in the third foot (between the last syllable of toto and the first of naturae). …
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How does the caesura work on this line?

Raven, Latin metre §66: The 'weak' third foot caesura is far less common in Latin than in Greek ... … [I]n the most developed type of hexameter verse ... it is nearly always combined with 'strong' caesura in the fourth foot at least ... and usually also with 'strong' caesura in the second foot... …
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