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Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

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RUTILIUS NAMATIANUSin his employment of spondees. There is, further,little enjamhement between hexameter <strong>and</strong> pentameter,so that his lines tend to be monotonouslyself-contained.** Yet, on the whole his versificationmust be called graceful,'' <strong>and</strong> at times his elegiaccouplets gain greatly in strength by a kind of Propertianforce which Rutilius succeeds in conferringupon the pentameter,EDITIONSJ. B. Pius. Editio princeps. Bologna, 1520.Onuphrius Panvinius. In his Reipiihlicae RomafiaeCommentarii. Venice, 1558.J. Castalio. Rome, 1582.C. Barth. Frankfort, 1623.Th. J. Almeloveen (c. not. variorum). Amsterdam,1687.P. Burman. P. L. M. II. pp. 1-184. Leyden,1731.C. T. Damm. Br<strong>and</strong>enburg, 1760.J. C. Wernsdorf. P. L. M. V. i. pp. 1-202. Altenburg,1788.A. W. Zumpt. Berlin, 1840.L. Mueller. Leipzig, 1870.Itasius Lemniacus (A. v. Reumont). Berlin, 1872.E. Baehrens. P. L. M. V. pp. 3-30. Leipzig,1883." Usually hexameter <strong>and</strong> pentameter constitute a unity,as in I. 65-66, or the second line takes up <strong>and</strong> completes thefirst, as in 1. 91-92, 331-332. Only occasionally does asentence run into more than one distich, as in I. 403-408,519-522.* The elisions are 61 in 712 lines. There are no elisionsof a long vowel before a short, nor of a monosyllable, nor atthe caesura, nor in the second half of a pentameter.759

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