Greek and Roman versification [microform], with an introduction on the development of ancient versification

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AN INTRODUCTION O THE DE VEL ORMENTOF ANCIENT VERNIFICATION

LUCIAN NULLI R

PROFESSOR IN ADELBER COLLEGE

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TRANSLATOR S NOTE.

Almost ali student in oti preparator school and college aresadi deficient in theiranowledge of Latin and Greel versification, and an hell Whateve to ard remedying this conditionis thingsma not be amiss. Heiace this translation in hich no changes have been introducet except the muSica notation.

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Italian translations, ill Pleas mala readerS. have o succee led in accomptishing the destre, severat time expressed, o reat exhaustivel of the metres os

Catullus in his litile book. For these I must reser toth Summarium rei metricae poetarum latinorum,' St.

L. M.

Tu thought hicli has influen ei me OS in the Composition of this book is that hicho have atready expressedon page IOI of m Biograph of RitSchi, nam ely that aknowledge of the most Sual classica metres, Munded ona developed linguisti sense, is the moSt important anil, in

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The method is exacti the Same a that ursited in the De re metrica poetarum latinorum. V Following the examples o Hermania and Lachinania, and stili more thatos entie and Porson, the attempt is very here made to explain the phenomena os versification rom a linguistic poliat os iew. While there a be a disserene os opinion concerning the scienti sic justification os his mode os Procedure, a question that I have discussed a more tength in the Biograph o Ritschi, page oo, here an hardi bean doub amon intelligent ea her os iis practical sesul-nes sor the purpose of this an ibook. The rea majorit os udges h are qualisiedo expressa opinion on the subject now Cknowledge that grammatica accent is hollyoithout influetice so sar a the rhythmica formation of the Classica metres is ConCerne l. M own theory, hicli oes muCh surther and amounts othis that the main object of the old Poet was to produceas reat variation a possibi belween the poetica rhythmand the grammatica accent, and that in generat, in thestructure of the verse, o regard was ad sor the accent, but ni for the number of syllabies, speciali for thebalancin os monosyllabies and polysyllabies, Still enco intersmuch opposition. My only ope is that aster read ingilie isti Section, even in mos stubboria opponent Willacknowledge that this te can e puto excellent se in

In a cordance illi the object of this or the Greelis principali considerei are Homer, the stagments of the Elegiac Iambic, and A oli poets, a sar a the Serve to illustrate Homero among the tragedians, speciali Sophocles of the Romans, Vergil, Horace, Ovid, Phaedrus, Tibullus, and Propertius Only occasional reserences re made 'OPr faces to irae Edition.

the chorus and in genera to the lyrica paris of the Greehiragedies for the solio in reaSon In the sirs place the Criticism and metrica reconstructiono these paris is ver uncertain, uS as in the candica os Plautus. Besides, a metrical Chenae of theSe passages is

Mund in ali the editions ordinarii used and although have grave oubis abolit the acceptet divisions stili nychange in them ould e angerous without a longerargument, and Polemica arguments ould expand this bookbeyoni iis prope limits Further, I in os the opinionthat the ea her hould read metricatly the lyrica paris of trage ly, and require the sanae of the Students, without lingering to long ver the versification. very teacher Wil admit that in the readin os a Gree drama in the gymnasia o many the dissiculi question inust e considered, that ni a mali portion os time an e ivei tometrica questions is the rea ling of an particular play isto e sinished or even carried to an considerable tength. It is the object of the gymnasium to developoli under- standin and imagination of the scholars, and to inspire in them a love and appreciation o classica antiquity, ut noto mahe of them philologist o specialist in metre.

succeed in ringing the student to no and understanditie ordinar metres of thos poets usuali read in the

have heres ore realed speciali os the two ostste ment and oble metres, the Dactylic exameter and Iambic Trimeter together illi the Strophes o Horace), with the conviction that ne ho has thoroughi mastere lthes measures has atready advanced a long a into the

knowledge os ancient versisi Cation.