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The pentameter should ideally end with a disyllable. And a connecting ‘’et’ would help show that the pentameter is a continuation, not an explanation, of the hexameter.

Perhaps:

Illud non moritur quodnam usque exstare videtur,

tempore et insolito, Mors, licet ipse cadas.

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It’s fine but Ovid’s practice of using only disyllables was thought preferable.

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