# title
Rhythmical clausulae in the Codex Theodosianus and the Leges Novellae Ad Theodosianum Pertinentes

# abstract
<jats:p>In two recent studies we have examined the prose rhythms in the clausulae of late imperial Latin authors. We found two clausular systems to be prevalent, the<jats:italic>cursus</jats:italic>and the<jats:italic>cursus mixtus</jats:italic>. The<jats:italic>cursus</jats:italic>involves the use of accentual rhythms and consists of three basic cadences:<jats:italic>planus, tardus</jats:italic>, and<jats:italic>velox</jats:italic>. The<jats:italic>cursus mixtus</jats:italic>has been defined by modern scholars as a type of prose rhythm in which the clausula is structured along both accentual and metrical lines, that is by the combination of one of the three forms of the<jats:italic>cursus</jats:italic>with one of the standard metrical forms derived from Cicero's system  cretic-spondee, dicretic, cretic-tribrach, or ditrochee.</jats:p>

# authors[].organizations[].label
Bush School of Government and Public Service