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Excerpt from Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre, Compiled From the Best Authors: Together With a Synopsis of Poetic Licenses Occurring in the Versification of Virgil, a Metrical Index to the Lyric Compositions of Horace, and the Scanning of the Mixed Trimeter and Dimeter Iambics of the Latter Poet It remains but to add to what has been already observed respecting the plan of the present work, that in order to re move if passible every difficulty, which mtght otherwise ima pede'the metrical career of the student, it has been deemed advisable to add a synopsis of the prmcrpal poetic licenses which occur in the versification of Virgil, together with a me trical index to the Odes and Epodes of Horace, and the scan ning of the most difficult of his mixed Iambics. The former of these is taken from a small metrical guide to Virgil, pub lished a few years Since by Dr. Carey, and which is in every point of view deserving of being reprinted in this country. 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.