[87]
I am, however, surprised that scholars of the
highest learning should have held the view that some
feet should be specially selected and others condemned for the purposes of prose, as if there were
any foot which must not inevitably be found in
prose. Ephorus may express a preference for the
paean (which was discovered by Thrasymachus and
approved by Aristotle) and for the dactyl also, on
the ground that both these feet provide a happy
mixture of long and short; and may avoid the
spondee and the trochee,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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