98 ROLFE— VOWEL LENGTH IN LATIN 



scription reads as follows : 



OUa I Secundae 

 Fatales moneo ne quis me lugeat orbi 



Namque Secunda fui nunc tegor e cinere. 

 Hie ego securis iaceo super omnibus una 



Natalis quia nos septimus ussit amor. 

 Natalis monumenti III Idus Maias. 



It may seem that the inferences which have been drawn are based 

 upon a small number of examples. That is quite true, but it must 

 be remembered that the total number of marked words is compara- 

 tively small, and that among these the repetitions are far from nu- 

 merous. In the index to C. /. L., XIV., for example, there are 211 

 words with apices ; among these there are but 33 repetitions and only 

 fifteen instances in which words are repeated three times or more. 

 The occurrence, therefore, of Manibus eight times, of fecit seven 

 times, and of lulius, lulia five times may fairly be regarded as signifi- 

 cant, especially when the number of examples of these forms is in- 

 creased from other volumes. The study has suggested to the writer 

 a number of lines of investigation, which he hopes to follow out at 

 some future time. 



University of Pennsylvania, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



