Metrum 5

Meter: Anapestic dimeter catalectic. No dactyls appear, and there is no diaeresis between metra.

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domet: jussive subjunctive (like summittat).

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uicta: accusative with colla.

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Indica: Indica . . . tellus . . . ultima Thyle: the limits of human habitation known to Romans; B. would not know the precise location of either.

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tellus: Indica . . . tellus . . . ultima Thyle: the limits of human habitation known to Romans; B. would not know the precise location of either.

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ultima Thyle: Indica . . . tellus . . . ultima Thyle: the limits of human habitation known to Romans; B. would not know the precise location of either.

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non posse: "not to be able," i.e., "inability"; to be taken as subject of est.