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—§,;808 PROSODY.—QUANTITY. .157Exc 1st, The increment in -mis from en and o is long ; as, Siren, Sirenis;A.nio, Anienis.Exc. 2d.The increment in e is long, from hceres, locuples, mansues, merces yand quies. Also, from lber and ver—from lex, rex, and vervex— plebs, seps, and halec.Exc. 3d. Greek nouns in er and es increase e long ; as, crater, craterismagnes, magnetis.I.806.—4. Increments in t, of the third declension, are short.Exc. 1st. Verbals in trix, and adjectives in ix, have i long; as victrix,victricis ; felix, fellcis.Also, cervix, cicatrix, comix, coturnix, lodix, matrix, perdix,phcenix, radix, and vibex.Exc. 2d. Greek nouns in is and in, with the genitive in inis, increaselong ; as, Salamis, Salamlnis.Exc. 3d.Dis, gits, and lis, with Nesis, Quiris, and Samnis, increase long.u.807.—5. Increments in w, of the third declension, are short.Exc. 1st. Genitives in udis, uris, and utis, from nominatives in us, havethe increase long ; as, palus, paludis, &c. But Ligus, intercus tand pecus, increase with u short.Exc. 2d. Fur, frux, lux, and Pollux, have u long.Y.808.—6. Increments in ?/ are short.Exc. Greek nouns, with the genitive in ynis, have the increase long.Also, Bombyx, Ceyx, and gryps, which increase long.INCREMENTS OF THE PLURAL NUMBER.809.—A noun in the plural number, is said to increase, whenit has more syllables in any case, than in the nominative plural.810.—An increment in the plural, can occur only in the genitive,dative, and ablative; and in these, it is the syllable next to the last.When any of these cases has no more syllables than the nominative, ithas no plural increment. Thus, serrnommi, pueris, capitum, have no pluralincrease, because they have no more syllables than sermones, pueri, capitastill, they all have the increment of the singular, because they have moresyllables than sermo, puer, and caput. But sermoinbus, puerorum, andcapilibus, have both the singular and plural increment.81 1.Rule XIII. Plural increments in a, e, and o, are longin i and w, short ; as,Masarum, rerurh, virorum, partibus, lacubus.*Vom Muscp* res, vlri, partes, lacus.