QUANTITY, 



.YuA?.— The above verft:s not niily furnidi ihu wovh relating to rule 

 62, but iilfo, to unite two ohjeil-ts in one, thry ;it the f.ime time 

 ;iffbr(l a r|)eciinen of all the Horatiaii metre, whiih, td the clalfical 

 ihideiit, may prove ;i vifeful coniprnrliuui. It is, probahlv, onlv the 

 iVcoiut production ortlickiud in print. 'I'hc firli isquoud hy the 

 two editors ol Horace, Cruquius and Baxter, and, had its fuhjcdt 

 heen as eliv;ible as the <lc(ign, the jtrefcnt would have l)ecn fupcr- 

 fcdeti. For a definition ci the Huratian metres cumpofin;; this fpc- 

 cimen, the reader may confult Ljne's Latin Prinur, (edit. 4th) 

 page 24'^), or Vkhsification, in the ll-qur! of this work. 'Ihe 

 foUowinj;, however, are ilie Hor.ttlan metres, as cxemphfiud in the 

 above lines; 1. An Adonic; 2. A dadtvlic pcntheminier ; 3. A 

 I'herecratiaii tnpodia ; 4. A Glyconic churiambic ; 5. Dai^Khc tetra- 

 meter ; 6. An hexameter; 7. Iambic dimcterncephalous ; 8. Iam- 

 bic dinicLcr; 9 lamlile »limeter Iiypcrcntalct^tie ; 10. Iambic trimeter 

 eataleiltic ; II. Iambic trimeter; 12. An af^k-piad ; ij. A Sapphic 

 hendecoryllabic; 14. A great Alcaic ; 15. A fmall Alcaic ; 16. Alcaic 

 rhorianibic; 17. Cht^riambic dimeter ; 1 8. _J\pichoriami)ic tetrame- 

 ter; 19. Ionic aminori trimeter ; 20. Sapphic Ionic ; 2i. Ionic ;\ mi- 

 iicri tetrameter; 22. Dactylic hoptameter; 23. firft elegiambic Ar- 

 ciiilochian ; 24. Second elegiambic Archiluchiyn. 'Hil- remaining 

 wold^ allvided to by rule 62, are comprifed ijy tho following hexa- 

 meters. 



■25. Ad mediam no6tcm srnim producere poffis ; 



26. Datque "iirum tibi lac. iSop/rrhazsK/ior omncs. 



27. Ac loboles petnhis, uti/'crn/c/ft'r, candem 



a8. Dcdu<::lam vocaiem extendunt. Pcrque ntcare 



29. /V?/Jc/cni prolclquc tibi dant. -/nv acutum 



30. Defiotat ; .(rbnreui (/tcr vult ; attjui corripiuiitur 



31. Ainborum foholes. /'n*fm'i', faciens /irocrrKTO, lit 



32. Pro magn itibus ; et ceWoprocrrus. Et lubur 



33. Ldl'i ; fed Labtfu6l(i labore ; laboro^ li/tare. 

 34- Rurfus, /^//(.Tci- uti riqncnnt tibi, difcere pollis 



35. Ut liceat profurre, metalla Oquarc^ Ciquuremj 



36. I.'iqai. ISitcam et in li'Ueo iiitu olefcere Ititum, 



37. /(/t'm f(/(^'f/i,necnoii /f/rm,et in fe.xto ht cffd^-m. 



38. ZJ^-rr^' uti lint vei6//6fcr/, iis nihil extat 



Ti<). Utiliiis, quam ut fanifius IH-cr liifce irgimdiis 



40. Sliy umc hh/''!n-t(Ucm /egal-h : ibidem 



41. Ut 7Jidn!i mini poHiiit folunKjue falutem 



42. rT^ternamque rjviruri ; qua, murii perniciofa 



43. Valileeft; utque ita niori inurcnturifuc revera, 



44. Dilcent. Dem'que ha?c, d'tco^ mentique Wicamla. 



General Rule, 



63, A vowel btft)i*c a fingle confonant, not afTecfti-d by 

 any preceding or following rule, is fhort ; as sapio, siltqvia, 

 gnlcilltas. 



1. Attamenexcipias hxc pnucula, ceu, crocodilus, 



2. Alea, fiiligo, piriita, abftf-mius, Olim, 



3. Area, sOlennifquc vi'nr-ficus, ilicet, ico, 



4. Hibernus mricutinufquc falirica, nCxius, 



5. Clitellce, brila;naque, coram, lUia, gluten, 



6. Maturus, Umax, capitOlium, anOnymus, ilia, 



7. Adduntlir mdor, vendemia, Hagiio, vclox 



8. Tibia, tibicenque acadr-mia, fibula, p.ila, 



9. Grfidivus, Mrivors^-Saturrms, Jupiter, Iris, 



10. Python, Idnlaethnica, ve! crepltacula. Rurfus 



1 1. Ala, reprigul.i, seini, sC-mis, copia, filum, 



12. Viburnum, contamino ct "ties crapula, talus, 



13. Vitupcro, mausoleum, m&galla, rapum, 



14. C"ilij;o, sngillo, mulus, mutuus, idus, 



15. Metiri, brililVique, fi-lix, dOnuo, qualus, 



16. Sohcitu, pridem, lie pri<tic,et simu, sepcs, 



I 7. Li\mina, tt'mrtum, ijritare, monedula, mugil, 



18. Rhinoceros, duduiu,nafus, prsvaricor, adde 



19. Varicor; invito ceu vito, solea, donee, 



20. Juuipervi/que. Nee otia danique negotia ; sulers 



21. Kurl) us, grV^ua, ptnuria, pucida, rlu'da, 



22. Oci^s Iliadcm, fili pcrdifce Homt-ri ; 



23. Culeus, or vibex, imbfcillifciue. Dat hilum, 



24. Prrceniemque nihil. Quam fa:pc,hcu ! ducere poITint 



25. Nugices, nugas, iricafque. CanOpus, usilus, 



26. Glutire ac vecors, socors, cx&iicus, Tier, 

 37. .\eria ac iio quoque iio ; vipera, crtiber, 



28. Vapulo ', et audive atqiio Cb, obedlre ethciuntquc 



29. Adduntur gnf-mon, v5gire, bon5.fus, Omafum, 



30. Dlviderc, ac idiOtn, iiuftpis, irSgula, jugis ; 



31. Corripiunturque hjc miceo, micer ; exprime prolem 

 J2. Mictto -. et iddc vOco, quodvOcpm, vOciferot^ue 



^2> Vucalem varlat, {hrni;itqtie vocabula. l^ifico: 



34. Placatus pb'iceo pl'icidu^, plrtcabilis, una 

 3J. No nivi natiim n'lto, uti notuin nOla, vido 

 y^. Atquc vudum, nubo una pronuba funt varianda. 



37. Stc oblivifci r et pecuiia, iilus, ar-don, 



38. Failidire haU-c, marsnpia, fabula, phrafis, 



39. Sibiloanicrtum fquiltcre ct cphobus, iulus, 



40. GlOcirc, occanus, pipire, facCti», tuber, 



41. lit L'Olum. Iibum, conchylia, ftrajjula, tabum 



42. Faux dat pnifOco, lie vcfpertilio, pupus, 



43. Sr-culum et adduntur sufcs et sfria rfifis 



44. Ravire ac udus mfv^ire ct baiia, napus 



4 J. Brachia fr-ria; anotha ct ant'dyna gloria thorax 



46. >'i(/('ra calnruni ron.'iW/'r^, opes mcliores 



47. Terrcnis necnon (/r5/(/<Ta,omitte minora. 



Note — I. To confine tiie preceding rules to limits as fiiort as pofliblc, 

 ill, the j'reccding rules and their exceptions relate only to words c^ 

 jmre or Augultan Latin. 2. Some terms of very rare occurrence, 

 chiefly the names of plants, herbs, l^ones, foffils, &c. near 300 in 

 number, are omitted, as matters of ocrafional reference, rather than 

 of conllant attention or grammatical rule. 

 2. W'Q have now, after four confecutive analyfes of the language, for 

 the more complete information of the ftudcnt, accomplilheda taflc, 

 perhaps never achieved before, nor, fo far as we aic acquainted, 

 offered to the public, in any profodialfvftem. And we can venture to 

 affirm, that any perton well acquainted with common profody, and 

 the rules of this. fe<5^ion, ^ill not, within the precinrh of Augullari 

 J^atin, find a fingle word, except the few of rare and urifrequent oc- 

 currence mentioned above, whofe quantity is nut regulated or ac- 

 counted for by the rules now given.. 'I'hus, for the tjrlt time, we 

 have reduced that, the majority of Latin quantity, bv all preced- 

 ing profodians referred to a courfe of o!)fervation and practice alone, 

 to a regular claffifkation and fyftem. \\'"ould our limits permit, wc 

 would here, for the f^ke of exemplification, take the words com- 

 prifed by any letter of the alphabet, and account for the quantity of 

 each by ihe principles and criteria we have here confiderad. 

 3. I: is ahnolt necelTiiry here to add, that the quantities of fyllables 

 are marked with very frequent inaccuracy in moll of our common 

 diL^tionaries. The poets are the only fatisfai^tory teft. 



Skction III On final Syllables. 



I. A final, in words declined by cafes, is fhort ; as fam3j 

 regnii, lanipad.1. 



Anchorif dc jirora j.icitur : ftnnt littore puppes. 



Virs. 



1. Except the ablative fingiilar of the firft dcclen- 

 fion ; as hac miifa, hoc ^nea. 



2. The vocative fingular from Greek nouns in as ; 

 as O Palla, O Atla. 



1. Profpiciens, ylimmu placidum caput extulit unda. Virg. 



2. Non hoi-c, O Fallu^ dederas promida parenti. Virg. 



2. A final, in words not declined by cafes, is long ; as 

 ania, ultra, prxterea. 



I. Littus aiiid et l:evas ftringat fine palmula cautes. Virg. 



3. Intcrcd magno milceri murmure pontum. Vug. 



1. Except itil and eja Ihort, and pollca common. 



2. Quia is generally fliort, but fuice Phardnis length- 

 ens it, we may pronounce it to be common. 



3. Some profodians quote puta, with the a fhort, from 

 Perfius, 4. 9. Bat the bell editions have puto, a reading 

 evidently preferable, in point both of fenfe and grammar. 



4. Though numerals in ghita are fometimes found 

 fhort, approved authors lengthen the ^7; yet it may 

 be well to recollect, that the Greek termination KONTA, 

 whence the Latin glnta h evidently borrowed, has the 

 final vowel fhort ; as 



Toiff kua. TiffffotPOL KON"TA fiiXat^Xi v»]e; f-rovru. Horn. 

 [See many other inliances in Iliad B.] 

 1. . . Ferret ad aurigerx caput arboris, c;a, per ipfum. Val. Flac 



a. Turn fie affatur rcgem, atque ita turbidus infit. Virg. 



3. Si au(ftoritnteni;)o//fa dcfugeris. Plaut. 



4. Pojicti mirauar, cur non fine litibus efiet. ^ Ovid. 



5. Hdud, (equidem credo,) quia fit tlivinilus illis. Virg. 



6. Ego primam toHo, nominur ^uiillco. Phadr. 



7. ScTas.inta tcras cun^ limina mane fcnatcr. Mart, 

 ?. /"ri'^oifa toto mala funt cpigrammata Ubro. Mart. 



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