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his companion made their way slowly down a dark passage into the Underworld. In this line all the feet are spondaic except the fifth:

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:ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram
:'They began moving in the darkness beneath the lonely night through the shadow'

Spondees can also add solemnity, as in the following lines where Dido, Queen of Carthage, curses Aeneas after he has abandoned her. The first line begins with three spondees, the second with

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