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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. 1893 edition. Excerpt:...is long in the Latin form, it must, if the caesura is observed, be a long penult and therefore accented; as,--lam satis ter'ris; Grandinis mi'sit; Aut in umbro'sis; Nec venena'tis; Unde voca'lem. The only exceptions would be (1) the case in which one monosyllable alone (not two together) should stand before the caesura,--a case which, however, does not occur, whether designedly avoided or not,--and (2) the case where an elision throws the word accent out of its proper place. Of the latter case, there are four examples only in Horace, and none at all in Catullus, and it would seem as if it were purposely avoided. The cases in Horace are:--Thessalo victo'r0 et (II. 4. 10); Oderit cura'i et (II. 16. 26); Imbrium divi'n avis (III. 27. 10); Pegasus terre'nuTM equitem (IV. 11. 27). This is obviously too small a number to be of importance. If the next word after the caesura is a word of one, two, or three syllables, the first syllable must be accented, inasmuch as the next syllable is short; thus:--... a'vidum domando;... et' avitus apto;... pri'us an quietem;... si'mul alba nautis. If the word has four or six, there must always be a secondary accent on the first. This results from the length of the third syllable, thus:--... su"pera're pugnis;... me"diocrita'tem. A five-syllable word does not occur in this position. The last syllable but one of the verse must, unless the last word is a monosyllable, be a long penult, and so receive the accent, thus:--... atque di'rae;... et rube'nte;... fabulo'sus;... mediocrita'tem. Even if the verse ends in a monosyllable, the conformity of accent may be retained by another monosyllable preceding; as, una mo'rs est: O'So/. There are only four cases in Horace and three in Catullus where the conformity is...