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Excerpt from The Stress Accent in Latin Poetry This monograph contains a condensed and careful summing up of the most authoritative evidence with regard to a stress accent in Latin. On the basis of the doctrine here set forth, Miss du Bois has formulated an ingenious and very plausible theory of the Saturnian Verse, and has sought to establish an explanation of the purely quantitative Latin poetry which shall reconcile the opposing views as to an apparent clash between word accent and verse accent. I regard her discussion as a valuable contribution to the literature of this highly controversial subject. 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.