Allen Rogers Benner, Selections from Homer's Iliad, A Short Homeric Grammar, The Dactylic Hexameter, section 16

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The third foot generally contains the principal caesura. The feminine caesura is more frequent than the masculine in this foot, the proportion between the two being approximately 4 to 3 (based on La Roche's figures). For examples of the feminine caesura see B 400-410; of the masculine, A 1 and 8.

Selections from Homer's Iliad, with an introduction, notes, a short Homeric grammar, and a vocabulary. Allen Rogers Benner. New York. Irvington Publishers, Inc. 1903.

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