When it is
followed
by a mute and a liquid,
both of which are in the following syllable.
both of which are in the following syllable.
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PART I.
QUANTITY.
CHAPTER I.
DEFINITIONS.
1.
1. The length of time occupied in pronouncing
a syllable. 2. A peculiar stress of the voice, by
which one syllable in a word is distinguished from
the others. 3. Those which are pronounced
slowly. 4. By this mark --.
2.
1. When it is pronounced rapidly. 2. Thus ^.
3. A syllable that may be made either long or
short. 4. By these marks --, ----, --.
3.
1. A long syllable. 2. Mad, name. S. Short.
4. Theme, mete, glebe.
4.
1. Then, there. 2. Hid, dim, ride. 3. Rob,
hope. 4. Robe, hops, sod.
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5.
1. Long. 2. Tun, cure, sung. 3. Plume, give,
hut. 4. Plum, these, grape.
6.
1. Gold, live, roll. 2. Short. 3. Long. 4-
Ca? bin, cable, ruby.
7.
1. Sober, solid, cadence, tenor. 2. No. 3. The
final a is long in the ablative, and short in the
nominative case. 4. The first syllable is short in
Malus, wicked, and long in Malus, a fruit tree.
8.
1. In the preterperfect the first syllable is long,
in the present it is short. 2. By the long quantity
of the final a in the ablative. 3. A poplar tree.
4. Either by established rules or by the authority
of the poets.
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CHAPTER II.
VOWELS.
1.
1. Short. 2. Long. 3. X, Z. 4. Long.
2.
l. Long. 2. insu^ltant,au? da^x. 3. No. 4. eu? ns, -
a^cce? nda^nt, de? hi? sce? ns.
3.
1. No. 2. Long. 3. Spe? i, re? i or re? i, fide? i or
fide? i, facie? i. 4. Because in each syllable there
is a vowel followed by two consonants.
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4.
1. In all the tenses except those, in which it is
followed by er. 2. Common. 3. Alius. 4. Alterius.
5.
1. a^er, i? o or To, Diana or Diana, via, di? us.
2. Fi? u^nt, e? heu^. 3. Alterius, soli? us or soli^us, fu-
gi? o, nullius or nullius. 4. Terrai, pi? cta^i, au^rai.
6.
1. When it is followed by two consonants.
2. Long. 3. No. 4. "Ne^cmyrtu^s vi? nca^tcorylos. "
i?
1. ? , ? , D, G, ? , ? , Q, ? . 2. L, M, N, R.
3.
When it is followed by a mute and a liquid,
both of which are in the following syllable.
4. When the mute and liquid belong to different
syllables, and when the liquid precedes the mute.
8.
1. Volucris or volu^cris, effe? rtis. 2. a^bluo.
3. In the compounds of Jugum. 4. a, ai, au, ei,
eu, a, oi.
9-
1. Short. 2. a^xis, cu^jus, pra^e? acutus, fi? erem.
3. Short. 4. A diphthong is long.
10.
1. Long. 2. No. 3. Every case except the
ablative. 4. Praesta^, lauda, Indu^stria^, a^rma? .
11.
1. Eja, ita, quia. 2. Contra, juxta, ultra, and
numerals in ginta. . 3. Short. 4. In the ablative
of the fifth declension.
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12.
1. Long. 2. Short. 3. In those derived from
adjectives of three terminations. 4. Bene, male,
superne, inferne? .
13.
1. ohe? or o^he^, ferme? , coele? stlsque? , ante.
2. Long. 3. Cave, vale, vide, salve. 4. Doce? ,
monete? , fere? , fide? .
14.
1. Cete? , pulchre? , quotidie? . 2. Long. 3. Be-
cause it is a short vowel followed by a mute and
a liquid. 4. A vowel before another vowel is short.
15.
1. Long. 2. Mihi, tibi, sibi, ibi, ubi, nisi,
quasi. 3. a^nni? , mortui, audi. 4. Because
a fina! is short in every case except the ablative.
16.
1. Common. 2. Long. 3. Puto, scio, nescio.
4. Monosyllables, dative and ablative cases, Ergo,
for the sake of.
17.
1. Cita, the compounds of modo, ambo, duo,
imo, illico, the imperative cedo, ego, homo. 2.
Denuo, sero, profecto, postremo, vero, porro,
ideirco, ultro, retro, adeo? , ideo, and adverbs de-
rived from nouns, pronouns, and adjectives.
3. To? rreo? or to? rreo, so? uino? , vu^lgo. 4. Qua^ndo?
or qua^ndo? , templo, subito, e? rgo^, e? rgo or e? rgo? .
18.
1. Do, pro? h, quomodo? . 2. Long. 3. Indu,
menu, and words in ms with the s elided. 4. Dictu? ,
diu^, pleno.
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CHAPTER IIb
CONSONANTS.
1.
1. Short. 2. Long. S. Nec, fac, donec. 4
The pronoun Hie, and its neuter hoc in the no-
minative and accusative.
2.
I. Short. 2. Short. 3. Sol, sal, nil. 4. ob,
po? stha^c, qui? cqui? d, consul.
3.
1. Long. 2. Those which make i? nis in the ge-
nitive. 3. An, forsan, forsitan, in, tamen, viden',
satin'. 4. Te? gme? n.
4.
1. Short. 2. Far, fur, lar, nar, par, aer, aether,
and nouns making e? ris in the genitive. 3. i? m-
be? r, au^di? u^ntiir, a^e?
