 It should not be confused with a biceps, which is a point in a meter which can equally be two shorts or a long, as is found in the dactylic hexameter.The biceps is freely able to be two shorts or a long, while resolution, particularly in tragedy, can only occur within very restricted situations.Two resolved longa in the same line is unusual, for instance, while a biceps that is two shorts can freely be followed by another biceps that is two shorts.