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 1       1, XVIII| conventional rules of letters and syllables, taught them by those who
 2       3, VI   |           out of a mixture of the syllables of thy name and the names
 3       4, XI   |           would not wish that the syllables should remain. Instead,
 4      10, III  |      tongue, without the sound of syllables - would say, “He speaks
 5      10, VI   |           it began and ended. The syllables sounded and passed away,
 6      10, XXIII|          not be in our words some syllables that were long and others
 7      10, XXVI |        and the length of the long syllables by the length of the short
 8      10, XXVI |          they extend over so many syllables; this is a long syllable
 9      10, XXVII|               this verse of eight syllables alternates between short
10      10, XXVII| alternates between short and long syllables. The four short ones - that
11      12, XV   |         read therein, without any syllables in time, what thy eternal