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<strong>©Biblioteca</strong> <strong>Nacional</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>Colombia</strong><br />
METRICAL INDEX.<br />
AFTER thoroughly learning H. 671-675 and 608-669, or A. &; S. 310<br />
and 282-309, tbe stu<strong>de</strong>nt will be prepared to study and enjoy the exquisite<br />
metro of Virgil. The well-known lines,-<br />
"Strongly it I benrs us a I long. ill I swelling and I limitless I billows,<br />
NotWng bo I fore, and I nothing be I hind, but tho I sky and tho I ocoan,"--<br />
but shadow forth one pbase of the manifold capacities of the heroic<br />
measure wbich Virgil employs with equal success to produce effects tbe<br />
most diverse.<br />
Tbe chief difficulties in scanning tbe Aeneid -(wbiob bave not been<br />
already explained in the Notes) are solved in tbe following table. For<br />
explanlltion of technical terms, consult the Grammar by tbe aid of tbe<br />
I n<strong>de</strong>x: for eliBioll see By1laloepha; for lengthening of tbe syllable in tbe<br />
ar."8, see a"."8 and diaBtole, and A. & S. 309, (1.) See also my Remarks<br />
at the end of tbis In<strong>de</strong>x, witb reference to Arsis, Hiatus (or non-elision<br />
of a vowel before anotber vowel), and otber points wortby of notice. 8ynapheia<br />
is "such a connection of two consecutive verses that the first syllaLle<br />
of the latter verse has an inllnence on the final syllable of that<br />
which preoe<strong>de</strong>s, either by position, synaloepha, or echthlipsis."<br />
BOOK I.<br />
73. C(!nnu I bw jiin I. fo pro yo by synneresis.-120. Jam valId' I<br />
i'm; Ill .. na I. N .. , one 8y1., by synaeresis.-131. vIS I cat d'/tf.lIc I<br />
Dehillc one sy1., by elision. - 195. quae I dCi"d1! cit I . Synaeresis.-<br />
256. na I tae d'","c I. See 131.-308. vId I et Mmi I . Final sy1l .. -<br />
ble lengthened by the Ilrsis. - 332- 3. lIS I corum I q,,'ETTa I mus. 8yna-<br />
* Schiller, tmn81ated by Coleridge.<br />
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