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Excerpt from A First Latin Verse Book A Knowledge of the laws of Quantity and the rules of Scansion is taken for granted in most of the Latin Verse Books in general use. A practical knowledge of these rules, though not very difficult of attainment, cannot be acquired by merely learning the two or three pages of the Grammar on which they are stated. For want of a few progressive Exercises, the pupil too frequently begins the construction of Latin Verses with a very inadequate knowledge of the Rules of Quantity, and, as a result, wastes a good deal of time in attempting impossible combinations of words. The aim of this little book is to supply material for progressive practice in these preliminary rules, and to carry the pupil some little way through the merely mechanical stage of Latin Verse Composition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.