Excerpt from Elements of Greek Prosody
Nata - In the Greek grammarians the arbitrary syllable is called also dpotdofiog (doubtfiul). Finally, it is evident that in proper metres the syllable, in itself arbitrary, has always the definite quantity of a long or short; see Hermann. Ele ment. Doctr. Metr. P. 88. L.
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