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Iambic senarii were spoken; other metres were sung; but the scenes in septenarii stood midway between the dialogue and the canticum.

From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George

Books i.-xx. and xxx. were in hexameters; xxii. in elegiacs; xxvi.-xxvii. in trochaic septenarii; and the next two in trochaic septenarii, iambic senarii, and hexameters.

From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George