424 H. B. Dewing, 
arsi was only admitted on sufferance, but he left this matter in such 
a form that all who have since used the law in Greek prose, with 
the single exception of Maas, have adopted the law in a form which 
counts this form just as regular as the form with four syllables in 
arsi. The very fact that form 31 is less common than form 4 
arouses suspicion, since form 3 may reasonably be expected to be 
more common than form 4 in clausule where no law regulates the 
position of word accents. Here it should be noted that the Latin 
accentual cursus uniformly avoids form 32; the Latin law is the law 
stated by Maas: only an even number of syllables can stand in arsi. 
It has been made practically certain that the Latin accentual . 
cursus was a direct development of the earlier quantitative cursus 
used by such writers as Pliny.® It is interesting to note that for 
Symmachus and all other writers for centuries following Havet con- 
siders the quantitative cursus fundamental, and indeed denies that 
any accentual cursus as such existed before the twelfth century 
A.D., while Meyer holds that the accentual cursus was already 
plainly present towards the end of the fourth century, and gradually 
supplanted the quantitative cursus. If, then, this accentual cursus 
which seems to be common to Latin and Greek prose of the same 
period is a historical development from the Latin word accents 
in the quantitative cursus, this fact would seem to preclude the 
possibility of an independent origin for the Greek accentual cursus *; 
but the details of usage must be worked out in each language 
separately. The points of divergence as well as the points of con- 
tact must be defined. 
Since the question of possible forms is made perfectly clear by 
a simple test, we need not delay longer over generalizations. The 
convincing test desired consists, as suggested above, in a detailed 
comparison by statistics of writing where the accentual cursus 

1 The clausule are classed and referred to as follows: 
Form 0 (no syllables in arsi) woecBeutny &BhEenov 
Form 1 (1 syllable oy ) Mexoee doviov 
Form 2 (2 syllables ,,  ,, ) mooteiverae doyous (regular) 
Form 3 (8 4 » oy) ELS EDapos xatEther 
Form 4 (4 yay) OTL TeyLoTH anchhcooeodct (regular) 
Form 5 (5 5 4») Moke Yeyvurcousrvwy 
Form 6 (6 a » os :+) €medevetuEvor Tois vmolvyiot 
* Cf. Havet, Symmachus, § 19. 
* Cf. Havet, Symmachus; and W. Meyer, Die rhythmische lateini- 
sche Prosa. 
* Cf. against this view G. L. Hendrickson, Am. Journ. Phil. 29 (1908) p.280. 
