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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt:...in that they are written by people as ignorant as the hearers themselves. But the writers of the ancient poetry were Greeks essentially, to whom the Greek was quite as familiar as the Latin, and if they forced the Latin into Greek measures, they did it with full knowledge of the rhythm of the Greek. They were perhaps making a compromise between the two languages; but they must have had the Greek constantly in their ears, and where they deviate from it, they must have done so under the influence of Latin speech, not Latin written words. The accommodation must have been made somehow, the only question is How? THE (coTra/Jos /caTa(cro's IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT INVESTIGATIONS. Bv Herman V. Hayley. THE nature of the so-called KoTTa/Jos Kcltciktos has been discussed pretty fully in two recent German dissertations1; but as the authors of these have come to opposite conclusions in regard to several points, it may be worth while to reconsider the evidence on both sides. That the word Ko.to.kt6s (from Kardytiv) in itself means "capable of being brought down" or "lowered" is undisputed, and may be assumed as certain. But why was the term applied to a variety of the KoTTa/8os, and what was the nature of the variety thus designated? It is evident from a comparison of Athenaeus 667 e, the schol. to Aristoph. Pax 1244 and the schol. to Lucian Lexiph. 3 (Vol. IV. p. 149 Jacobitz) that the author who is their common source distinguished two varieties of the cottabus, the Korra/Sos KaTaKTos and the 7rcuSia lv XeKavy (or KoTTa/3os Si' d£v/Ja£av). The KoTTa/3os KaraKTOs he described as a tall, candelabrum-like instrument, equipped with a head (irpdowov) or figure called /nanjs. If the throw was properly made, an object called the irXaoriy£ in...