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- 2002, Mine Doğantan, Mathis Lussy: A Pioneer in Studies of Expressive Performance page 89:
- He refers to the ictūs as "the vital elements" that conserve the identity, the essence of a rhythmic unit.
- 2010 July: 21st (9:59pm)⁽¹⁾ and 22nd (5:47am),⁽²⁾ Bitmap (user name), “Re: How to say dactylic hexameters” in Latin Language Discussion Fora, posts 50,015⁽¹⁾ and 50,043⁽²⁾
- ⁽¹⁾ What you also need are the caesurae and the ictūs
- ⁽²⁾ It is claimed that Romans did not read with the stress on the ictūs, but they certainly felt that rhythm from the variation of the syllable length. If you begin reading I would try reading with the ictūs; this gives you a clear rhythm and it is more fun to read them that way. With some practice, you can quickly tell where the caesura is and which syllables are long and likely to be the ictūs.
- 2010 August 23rd (1:20pm), Bitmap (user name), “Re: Aeneid IV, 304–330” in Latin Language Discussion Fora, post 52,490
- I think the macrons are supposed to be ictūs
- 2012, Martin N. Raitiere, The Complicity of Friends: How George Eliot, G. H. Lewes, and John Hughlings-Jackson Encoded Herbert Spencer’s Secret, Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, →ISBN (cloth: alkaline paper), →ISBN (electronic), Phase Two: “What the Philosopher Wrote (with a Friend’s Rejoinder)”, chapter 6: ‘Electricity and the Man’, page 102:
- In fact Spencer may have been the only person in that group who held that the individual is subject to forces, ictūs in the etymological sense, entirely beyond his control.
- ibidem, Phase Three: “What the Doctor Heard”, chapter 12: ‘Ghost Stories’, page 212:
- (In a previous chapter we appreciated the “ictal” flavor of that belief, i.e., its possible relationship to a condition involving non-metaphorical ictūs or blows.)