...| tu patujte iecu\bdns sub | tegmine | fagl. GENERAL RULES FOR THE QUANTITY OF SYLLABLES. 2. If one word ends with a consonant and the next word begins with a consonant, the vowel standing before is long. 3. A short vowel standing before two consonants may be either short...

...by position. 6. The final syllable of a word in verse, is uniformly long by position : (a) when it ends with a consonant, and the next word begins with a consonant ; eg /tai KÓ&L | auv Tpà \ of ; also (b) when the final syllable ends with a short vowel, but the...

...by position. 6. The final syllable of a word in verse, is uniformly long by position : (a) when it ends with a consonant, and the next word begins with a consonant; eg /tai /шЛ I <7ov Три | ас ; also (b) when the final syllable ends with a short rowel, but...

...the people imagine a vain thing?" and says it is composed of dactyls and spondees, for as " heathen " ends with a consonant and the next word begins with a consonant, it may be considered a spondee ; whereas the former line " Husbands, Лс." is composed entirely of...

...people imagine a vain thing ?" and says it is composed of dactyls and spondees, for as " heathen " ends with a consonant and the next word begins with a consonant, it may be considered a spondee; whereas the former line " Husbands, &c." is composed entirely of trochees....

...not bitter against them." The first two lines are composed of dactyls and spondees, for as " heathen" ends with a consonant, and the next word begins with a consonant, it may be considered a spondee ; the last line of the three is composed entirely of trochees, except...

...left is the" short syllable ma. On some exceptional quantities in verse see 89 sq. 48. B. The first word ends with a Consonant and the next word begins with a Consonant. Here no transference was allowed. Accordingly we have S-mat Ro-manos, Ro-ma-num tl-met, and so on....