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<p>Occasionally (about 1 line in 100) the caesura comes in the 4th foot only.</p>

<p><big>Latin</big></p>
<p>Caesurae were widely used in <a href="page.php?w=Latin_poetry">Latin poetry</a>, for example, in the opening line of <a href="page.php?w=Virgil">Virgil</a>'s <a href="page.php?w=Aeneid">Aeneid</a>:</p>

<p><blockquote><poem>Arma virumque cano || Troiae qui primus ab oris(Of arms and the man, I sing. || Who first from the shores of Troy...)</poem></blockquote></p>

<p>This line uses caesura in the medial position. In dactylic hexameter, a caesura</p><p>
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