Accentual Cursus in Byzantine Greek Prose. 461 
It is impossible to suppose that the order in such cases is a per- 
version by the manuscript tradition of an order which originally 
conformed to the cursus forms; their occurrence is entirely too 
common to allow such an explanation. It is rather necessary to 
believe that Procopius wilfully neglected the cursus rhythm in many 
of his clausule—a neglect which is doubtless to be explained by 
his constant imitation of Herodotus and Thucydides. Nevertheless, 
the cursus rhythm was plainly known to him, and he should be 
classed as a writer who consciously sought that rhythm without 
insisting on producing it with unchanging regularity. 
