INDEX TO IRREGULARITIES OF SCANSION IN THE GEORGICS. Line BOOK I. 4. Pěcări retains the final I unelided. See grammars under "hiatus." 31. Tethys lengthens the final syllable by the ictus. See grammars under "diastole." 138. Plēĭădās; as Tethys in 31. 221. Eōae retains the final ae. The verse is spondaic. 279. Typhōea; trisyllable by synaeresis of ea. 281. Cōnāti retains the final ; and Pēliŏ retains and shortens the final ō. 295. Umōrem loses final em by synapheia. 341. Agni retains the final I. 397. Tenuiă; trisyllable forming a dactyl; u being used as a consonant, making the first syllable long by position: ten-wĭ-ă. 437. Glaucō and Pănŏpēǎe retain the final ō and ae, the latter being shortened. See note. 482. Fluviōrum; trisyllable by synaeresis of io, the first syllable being lengthened as if by position. Comp. tenuia, 397. BOOK II. 71. Fāgūs; as Tethys, I, 31. 86. Rădii retains the final I. 121. Tēnulă; as in I, 397. 129. Miscǎěrunt shortens the penultimate by systole. 144. Ŏlĕae retains the final ae. 180. Tēnuis; dissyllable; ten - wis. Comp. note on I, 397. 200. Deerunt; dissyllable by synaeresis of ee. 233. Deerunt; as in 200. 344. The final vowel of -que is elided by synapheia. Line 443. Synapheia as in 344. 453. Alveo; dissyllable by synaeresis of eo. BOOK III. 60. Păti retains the final I. 76. Ingreditur; as Tethys, I, 31. 118. Lǎbōr; as Tethys, I, 31. 155. Pěcori retains the final I. 189. Invălidūs; as Tethys, I, 31. 242. Synapheia; as in II, 344. 283. Miscăěrunt; as in II, 129. 332. IŎvīs; as Tethys, I, 31. 377. Synapheia; as in II, 344. BOOK IV. 34. Alvearĭă; four syllables by synaeresis of ea. 38. Tēnuĭă; as in I, 397. 92. Měliōr; as Tethys in I, 31. 243. Stellio loses the final o, and is pronounced with the following et, by synaeresis of i-e, stellyet. 297. Pariĕtibus; four syllables by synaeresis of ie; the first syllable being lengthened as if by position. Thus pār-yet-i-bus. Comp. fluviorum, I, 482. 343. Ephyrē retains the final è. 355. Pēnei; dissyllable by synaeresis of ei. 429. Consuētă; trisyllable by synaeresis of ue. 453. Nullīus; as Tethys, I, 31. 461. Rhodŏpēĭăe retains and shortens the final ae. Comp. Panopeae, I, 437. 463. Gětae retains the final ae. The verse is spondaic, orithyia being a word of four syllables. REFERENCES IN THE NOTES. H, Harkness; M, Madvig; Z, Zumpt; A, Allen and Greenough; B, Bartholomew; G, Gildersleeve. The Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid, are indicated respectively by E, Ge, and Ae. THE INSCRIPTION. Ille ego, qui quondam gracili modulatus avena Ut quamvis avido parerent arva colono, Gratum opus agricolis: at nunc horrentia Martis. THE above verses are usually placed at the beginning of the Aeneid, but printed in a form different from that of the text, as an indication that there is à question as to their authenticity, and as to their proper connection with the poem. Ancient scholars seem to have received them as genuine, and, considered by themselves, they are not unworthy of Vergil. But, when we connect them with the opening sentence, they detract so much from its simplicity and dignity that we can not think they were intended to enter into the text. the other hand, "all antiquity," as Ribbeck says, "recognizes the words arma virumque as the beginning of the poem." They are thus understood and quoted by Ovid, Propertius, Martial, and others, as well as by the an On |
