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«. * Es, in the prefent tenfe oi Jiim, and its "com- 

 pounds, is (hort ; as ades, abes, prod^s, potes, &c.; 

 and in the prepofition penes. 



A. - Latin nouns of the third declenfion, in es, in- 

 creafing (hort in the genitive, arc fhort in the iinal fyl- 

 lable ; as hebCs, ales, pedes, hmfis, obs€s. ' But esjs 

 long in thefe following ; Ceres, paries, aries, abies, 

 pes, and its ■* compounds, as bipes, tripes, alipes, foni- 

 pes ; to which fome add prxpes, a derivative of praepeto. 



1. TVuarfes; et patriafumantia tefiarelii|iiunt. Ovid. 



2. Quifquis fSjamilTos hinc jam oblivifcercOraios. Virg. 

 1. Nunc adcs O cirptis, flava Minerva, mcis. Ovid. 



4. Vivitur ex rapto ; non hfi/jies ab liofpite tutus. Ovid. 



5. Flava CtTM alto pcquicquam ipecftat Olyuipo. Virg. 



6. Creditur : ipfe aries cti.im nunc vellera fitcat. Virg. 



7. Defuper Auriga; dexter ;« imminet aaro. Manil. 



8. Sinjbniph, ct frsna ferox Ipumantia mandit. Virg. 

 ♦Wo/t.— I. Th ugh rs, in the prefent tenfe of /urn and its compounds 



is (iiort, it is not in any other tenfe, nor in the final fyllablc of 

 '#"■> (^^ ^^^ '"^^" alferted,) as 



Pofses in tanto vivere flagitio ? f ropert. 



EJses lonii tada puella maris. Propert. 



a. Whenever paries, aries, and abies are found long, there happens to 

 be a carl'ura ; and perhaps Ceres and pes are long by diaftole : Au- 

 fonius (honcns bipes and tiiges ; and Probus obferves that alipps and 

 fonipesare likewife (liort ; though the contrary appears in Virgil, 

 Lucan, and Horace, yet fome of the abovc-meiitioned word.s could 

 not be introduced into heroic verfe without the influence of a figure 

 to lensthen their final fyllabie. Pra;pc5, wliich comes not from 

 pes, but from T^o^irhs, is.lhcrt in Virgil. (/F.n. 5. 254.) Tigres, 

 afcribed to Ovid, is, by the bed critics, rejefted. 



17. IS final is (hort ; as bis, Is, quis, cis, magis, turrls, 

 militis, creditis, Thetis. 



Tom l-h ad occafum, bis fe convertit ad ortum. Ovid. 



1. Except plural cafes in is ; as nobis, vobis, (' quis 

 for quibns), musis ; the plural accufatives ' omnis, 

 'urbis, &c. 



2. The nominative in is is long, when the * genitive 

 ends in Itis, mis, or ends long ; as lis, Samnis, Sa- 

 lamis, Simois. 



3. Js is long in the adverbs 'gratis and foris ; in 

 the noun glis, and in vis, whether noun or ' verb. 



4. All ' fecond perfons Angular in is are long ; when 

 the fecond perfons plural have Itis long ; as cis, fis, 

 sis, is, abis, alidis, velis, nolis, pofsis, &c. 



5. '° Ris of the perfeft is commonly confidered fhort, 

 of the " future % common ; fo are the penultimates of 

 ausis and faxis : ris and ritis of ' ' ero and potero are 

 more frequently (hort. 



1. Induccnda rota eft : das 11 tij/s utile munus Mart. 



2. Quis ante or.i patnim Troj^ fub ma;nibus altis. Virg. 



3. Non omnis arbufta juvant, humilefque myricae. Virg. 



4. Adde tot egregias urbls^ optrumque laborem. Virg. 

 ?. Sed Lis eft mi»ii de tribus capellis. Mart. 



6. Nefiis, heu! nefcis doniinte faftidia Roms. Mart. 



7. Ignea convex! vis et fine pondere co;li. Ovid. 



8. Si tis elTe ahquis. Probitas-laudatur et alget. Juven. 



3. •" Greek nominatives and vocatives of the fecond 

 declenfion have os (hort ; as Claris, Tenedtis, Le(b68, 

 AtropSs. But thofe nouns of the Attic dialeft, having 

 their genitrves in omega, are long, as Androgeos, 

 Athos : alfo nouns of^the lame dialeft, which have 

 changed laos (>.«??) into leos (a;»;), as Peneleos, Me- 

 neleos. 



4. Greek, neuters in os are (hort ; as Argds, epris, 

 chaos, melos. 



1. Alta jacet vafti fuper ora Ty/i/ioeS' jEtna. Ovid. 



2. Infequvre, et voti poitmodo wiapos eris. Ovid. 



3. Exfjs '.t uxfanguis tuinldos pL-rflufiuat anus. Lucret. 



4. Turn, cum trillis erat, defcnfa ell //f'iiarmis. Ovid, 

 j. Quantus yi(yi'«, aut quantus Eryx,aut ipfe carufcis. Virg. 

 6. Et ChalJs ct Phlegcthow, loca aoAe filentia lati — Viiig. 



ig. US final is (hort; as tentis, littils, penitiis, intOs, 

 Ambobiis, Moiitibiis, Amamds. 



Incipe : pafcent»'s fervabit Titj/riis hxdo;. Virg. 



1. Except ■ monofyllables in us ; as grus, plus, rus, 

 thus, jiis. 



2. Alfo the • genitives of feminine nouns in o ; as 

 Cliiis, Sapphus, Mantus. 



3. Genitives fingular, and nominatives, accufatives, 

 and vocatives plural of the fourth declenlion, ( all being 

 contradttd,) have us long ; as fruftus, manfls. 



4. Alfo nouns increafing long in the genitive ; as 

 palus-udis, virtus-utis, tellus-uris, Opus-untis. 



5. Us is long ui the * compounds of ■ttch.:, ( forming 

 the genitive in podis or podos,) asTripus, Melampus, 

 CEdipus, Polypus. 



6. Alfo '' thofe nouns which have a in their voca- 

 tive ; as Panthijs, O Panthu. 



7. Finally, ' Ijktou; has the final fyllabie long. 



1. Rom:K 77i5 f'ptas, abfentem mfticusurbeni. Hor. 



2. Didiis atque fuum mifceri fanguine I'anguen. Varro. 



3. Pars fecreta (/o7*i(/5 ebore et teftudine ciiltos — Ovid. 



4. Ridet ager ; neqxie adhuc virtils in froiidibus xilla eft. Ovid. 



5. Hie (Edipfis ^Egea tranabit freta. Seneca. 



6. Panthus Othryades, aicis I'ho^bique facerdos. Virg. 



7. Et ciilo et terris venerandum nomen Jefus. 



20. YS final is (hort ; as Capys, chelys, chlamys. 

 At Capys, et quorum melior fententia menti. Vir^. 



Except nouns which form the nominative in yn alfo ; 

 as Gortys, Phorcys. To thefe add contracted plurals ; 

 as Erynnys, for Erinnyes, or Erinnyas. 



21. Final T (hortens the preceding vowel; as capiit, 

 amat. 



Venim hvtc tantum alias inter ; caput extuUt urbes. Virg. 



Except when final / is long by crafis : as redit for 

 rediit or redivit. 

 Magnus civis obit et furmidatus Othoni. Juven. 



22. Thelaft fyllabie of every verfe is confidered common; 

 that is, if the fyllabie be naturally long, it may be accounted 

 fhort; or, if it fuit the verfe, "uice tierfd. 



9. Gratis anhelans, multa agendo, nil agens. Phjcdr. 



10. Diaerh egregie notum fi caltida verbjm. Hor. 



11. Quas gentes Italurn, aiit quas non oraufris urbes. Virg. 



12. Da milii to platidum ; det/t'iis in carmine vires. Ovid. 



13. Fortunate puer,tu nunc eris alter ab illo. Virg. 



18. OS final is long ; as ros, vos, nos, mos, flos, tros, 

 %rb6s, honos, cuftos, nepos. 



Os homini fublime dedit, calumque tucri. Ovid. 



1. Except ' Greek genitives in os ; as Arcados, Te- 

 thy<56, Tcreds, Orphefis. 



2. Alfo ' compos, impos, and ' os-oflis, with its 

 compounds exCs, have the final fyllabie fhort. 



Gens inimica mihi Tyrrhenum navigat squvT. 

 Crefcit occulto velut arbor tsvo. 



Virg. 

 Hor. 



Note. — I. In the firft of thefe example!,(/r, naturally (hort, forms the fe- 

 cond fyllabie of a fpondee; in the laft,a Sapphic verfe, the word tcvo, 

 which is naturally a fpondee, forms a trochee. 



a. " The grammarians that difpleafe Dr. Chrke, (fee Cbrke's Ho- 

 mer, Iliad A. v. 54.) by faying that the lail fyllabie of a verfe is 

 common, only mean, that the local quantity fuperfedes the natural 

 quautity of the fyllabie." 



For the laft principal head of profody ; fee ViRsiFI- 



CATION. 



QUAN-TSOM, in Geography, a town of China, of the 

 third rank, in Pe-tche-li ; 32 miles S. of Chunte. 



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