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Clavis metrico-Virgiliana. A metrical guide to the right intelligence
of Virgil's versification. [With] a Synopsis of the poetic licences.
Carey, John, 1756-1826. L, 1818.
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CLAVIS METRICO-VIRGILIANA.
A METRICAL GUIDE
to the right Intelligence of
VIRGIL'S VERSIFICATION;
"containing
a Solution of its principal Difficulties;
the Lines distinctly scanned in each Case j
and the Poetic Licences explained.
To which is added
A SYNOPSIS of the Poetic Licences,
exhibiting, at one View, the various Examples of each,
collectively classed together.
By John Carey, LL. D.
Classical, French, and English Teacher,
Author of" Latin Prosody made easy "--" Scanning Exercises for
Young Prosodians" -- " Practical English Prosody and Versifi-
cation" --" Introduction to English Composition and Elocution" --<
and other Publications.
LONDON. --1818.
PRINTED FOB LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORJIE, AND BROWN,
PATERNOSTEK-BOW, .
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? J, ? iu>>'iii Prosody made easy: a new Edition, enlarged and im-
proved--
2. Abridgement of " Latin Prosody," for the use of Schools --
3. C/ain>> Metrico-Virgiliana. ; or, a Solution of the principal
Metrical Difficulties occurring in Virgil's Versification; the Scan-
ning and the Poetic Licences being, in each case, distinctly pointed
out and explained --
4. Scanning Exercises for young Prosodians --
5. Alphabetic Key to " Propria quce Maribus," &c. -- a new
Edition, with considerable Improvements --
6. Skeleton of the Latin Accidence, exhibiting the whole in one
folding Table--
7. Practical English Prosody and Versification; or Descriptions of
the different Species of English Verse, with Exercises in Scanning
and Versification, gradually accommodated to the various Capacities
of Youth at different Ages, and calculated to produce Correctness of
Ear and Taste in reading and writing Poetry; the whole interspersed
with occasional Remarks on Etymology, Syntax, and Pronunciation.
Second edition --
8. Key to " Practical English Prosody,'' &c. --
9. Introduction to English Composition and Elocution, in four
Parts, viz. 1. iESOP modernised and moralised, in a Series of in-
structive TALES, calculated, both as Reading-Lessons, and as Sub-
jects for Narration: 2. SKELETONS of those Tales, with leading
Questions and Hints, to guide and assist the juvenile Writer in
re-composing them: 3. POETIC READING made easy, by means
of METRICAL NOTES to each Line: 4. An Appendix of select
Prose --
10. Learning better than House and Land; a Moral Tale; third
Edition --
11. Profitable Amusement for Children; or Familiar Tales, uniting
Instruction with Entertainment --
12. Dry den's Virgil, revised. and corrected (the Edition of 1803) --
13. Ainsworth's Latin Dictionary revised; Edition of ] 816 --
14. Abridgement of Ainsworth's Dictionary; 1817--
besides several Volumes of
the REGENT'S EDITION of the Classics,
now in the Course of Publication.
He has in forwardness for Publication Thomson's Seasons, wita*
Metrical Notes to each Line, to regulate the Pronunciation --
The Eton Latin Prosody illustrated, with Explanations, Comments,
and Examples -- and
Latin Versification made easy, in a Series of Exercises, gradually
suited to the progressive Abilities of the Student in the different
stages of his classical career.
Printed by A. Strahan,
Printers-Street, London.
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? PREFACE.
For the use (in the first instance) of gentlemen applying to
me for assistance in acquiring a knowledge of Prosody and
Versification -- and with the further view of aiding others
who may be desirous of correctly understanding the struc-
ture of Virgil's lines, and pronouncing them with metrical
propriety -- I publish this "Clavis," in which I have distinctly
noticed and analysed every verse of his Eclogues, Georgics,
and JEne'id, containing any poetic licence which I thought
capable of creating difficulty to the inexperienced Prosodian.
The principal objects, thus noticed, are --
1. A short final syllable rendered long by the Ccesura, in-
dependently of subsequent consonants; the caesural pause
(the "Paululum morce" of Quintilian, 9, 4) being alone suffi-
cient to produce that effect. -- Every such licence I have
indicated by the single word, " Ccesura" subjoined to the
example.
2. A final Vowel or Diphthong un-elided before a subse-
quent initial vowel -- and still retaining its natural quantity
-- indicated by the two words, " Ccesura" and "Preserved. "
3. A final long Votvel or Diphthong un-elided before a
subsequent initial vowel, and made short -- so mentioned in
each case.
4. A Crasis or Synaresis, by which two syllables are re-
duced to, or pronounced as, one -- indicated by the word
"Crasis," or " Synceresis. "'
5. Diceresis, or the division of one syllable into two.
6. Synapheia, or the Continuity of Metre--sufficiently in>>
telligible, as I have arranged the syllables in each instance-
but explained more at large in my "Latin Prosody made
easy," sect. 54.
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? iv Preface.
Other licences are particularly explained in each indivi-
dual case, as they occur.
Among the examples of Synceresis, I have not deemed it
worth while to notice every appearance of Cui and Huic,
which so frequently occur as monosyllables, and so rarely
as dissyllables -- rarely, I mean, that we can prove them to
be so intended; though it seems very probable (from the
authorities quoted in my " Prosody") that Virgil meant them
for dissyllables in the following lines, and likewise in every
other place where the metre will allow us to read them as
such --
Atpuer Ascanius, ckj nunc cognomen Iulo . . . (Sua. 1, 271.
which verse unquestionably flows more smooth and harmo-
nious with the dactyl, than with a heavy spondee, terminated
with an unmusical monosyllable. And, in reading the fol-
lowing passage (iEn. 11, 644)--
Tantus in arma patet: latos huic hasta per armos
Acta tremit --
Virgil himself would, no doubt, have pronounced tos huic
a dactyl, as much better calculated, than the slow spondee,
to paint the rapid flight and prompt effect of the spear.
Neither have I chosen to increase the number of my pages,
by noticing those cases in which the particle " RE " is made
long, as in Religio, Reliquice, Retulit, Repulit, &c. because,
when the " RE" is thus lengthened, such words are gene-
rally printed with the following consonant double (Relligio,
Rettulit, &c. ) in conformity to the example set to us by the
ancients in the verb Reddo, which is never written otherwise.
Dii and Diis, being every-where used by Virgil as mono-
syllables, and generally printed Dt and Dis, are likewise
passed over unnoticed -- together with the variations of
quantity in the initial syllables of Italus, Italia, Priamust
Priamides, &c. as they can create no difficulty in scanning.
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? Preface. V
If I have, without apparent necessity, so often noticed
the diphthong " EU" in Proteus, Orpheus, and other pro-
per names of similar description; it was with the view of
more pointedly directing the young prosodian's attention to
that Greek diphthong, and guarding him against the error
of dividing it, as beginners frequently do, in such cases as
the following, to produce an apparent dactyl by such im-
proper division, with a violation of quantity in the preceding
long syllable--
Intus se vasti Proteus tegit objice saxi.
. . . Infelix Theseus, Phlegyasque miserrimus omnes . . .
. . . . Granda&vus Nereus f novit namque omnia vates.
Having said, under Georg. 2, 382, and JEn. 7, 484, that
it is perfectly optional with us to pronounce Theseidce,
-Tyrrheidce, or Tkesidce, TyrrhldeB, I think it not amiss to
quote the following remarks from a paper of mine on
"Greek Patronymics" published in the European Magazine
for August, 1817-
"ALLOW me to offer to your classical readers a few
remarks on what appears to me an erroneous method of
scanning and pronouncing many verses in Homer and other
ancient poets, Latin as well as Greek.
"The error in question (if it really be an error) takes
. place in the pronunciation of such patronymic titles as
Atreides, Peleides, &c. in which the generality of readers
make the EI a diphthong: and, to determine whether we do
or do not rightly scan and pronounce them, it may be proper,
in (be first instance, to consider the mode of their deriva-
tion.
"The simplest rule (as I apprehend) for the formation of
an ordinary regular patronymic from a proper name, is --
"To cut off the final vowel of the dative singular, (count-
ing the subscript iota as nothing) and to add IAH2 (with the
a
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CLAVIS METRICO-VIRGILIANA.
A METRICAL GUIDE
to the right Intelligence of
VIRGIL'S VERSIFICATION;
"containing
a Solution of its principal Difficulties;
the Lines distinctly scanned in each Case j
and the Poetic Licences explained.
To which is added
A SYNOPSIS of the Poetic Licences,
exhibiting, at one View, the various Examples of each,
collectively classed together.
By John Carey, LL. D.
Classical, French, and English Teacher,
Author of" Latin Prosody made easy "--" Scanning Exercises for
Young Prosodians" -- " Practical English Prosody and Versifi-
cation" --" Introduction to English Composition and Elocution" --<
and other Publications.
LONDON. --1818.
PRINTED FOB LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORJIE, AND BROWN,
PATERNOSTEK-BOW, .
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? J, ? iu>>'iii Prosody made easy: a new Edition, enlarged and im-
proved--
2. Abridgement of " Latin Prosody," for the use of Schools --
3. C/ain>> Metrico-Virgiliana. ; or, a Solution of the principal
Metrical Difficulties occurring in Virgil's Versification; the Scan-
ning and the Poetic Licences being, in each case, distinctly pointed
out and explained --
4. Scanning Exercises for young Prosodians --
5. Alphabetic Key to " Propria quce Maribus," &c. -- a new
Edition, with considerable Improvements --
6. Skeleton of the Latin Accidence, exhibiting the whole in one
folding Table--
7. Practical English Prosody and Versification; or Descriptions of
the different Species of English Verse, with Exercises in Scanning
and Versification, gradually accommodated to the various Capacities
of Youth at different Ages, and calculated to produce Correctness of
Ear and Taste in reading and writing Poetry; the whole interspersed
with occasional Remarks on Etymology, Syntax, and Pronunciation.
Second edition --
8. Key to " Practical English Prosody,'' &c. --
9. Introduction to English Composition and Elocution, in four
Parts, viz. 1. iESOP modernised and moralised, in a Series of in-
structive TALES, calculated, both as Reading-Lessons, and as Sub-
jects for Narration: 2. SKELETONS of those Tales, with leading
Questions and Hints, to guide and assist the juvenile Writer in
re-composing them: 3. POETIC READING made easy, by means
of METRICAL NOTES to each Line: 4. An Appendix of select
Prose --
10. Learning better than House and Land; a Moral Tale; third
Edition --
11. Profitable Amusement for Children; or Familiar Tales, uniting
Instruction with Entertainment --
12. Dry den's Virgil, revised. and corrected (the Edition of 1803) --
13. Ainsworth's Latin Dictionary revised; Edition of ] 816 --
14. Abridgement of Ainsworth's Dictionary; 1817--
besides several Volumes of
the REGENT'S EDITION of the Classics,
now in the Course of Publication.
He has in forwardness for Publication Thomson's Seasons, wita*
Metrical Notes to each Line, to regulate the Pronunciation --
The Eton Latin Prosody illustrated, with Explanations, Comments,
and Examples -- and
Latin Versification made easy, in a Series of Exercises, gradually
suited to the progressive Abilities of the Student in the different
stages of his classical career.
Printed by A. Strahan,
Printers-Street, London.
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? PREFACE.
For the use (in the first instance) of gentlemen applying to
me for assistance in acquiring a knowledge of Prosody and
Versification -- and with the further view of aiding others
who may be desirous of correctly understanding the struc-
ture of Virgil's lines, and pronouncing them with metrical
propriety -- I publish this "Clavis," in which I have distinctly
noticed and analysed every verse of his Eclogues, Georgics,
and JEne'id, containing any poetic licence which I thought
capable of creating difficulty to the inexperienced Prosodian.
The principal objects, thus noticed, are --
1. A short final syllable rendered long by the Ccesura, in-
dependently of subsequent consonants; the caesural pause
(the "Paululum morce" of Quintilian, 9, 4) being alone suffi-
cient to produce that effect. -- Every such licence I have
indicated by the single word, " Ccesura" subjoined to the
example.
2. A final Vowel or Diphthong un-elided before a subse-
quent initial vowel -- and still retaining its natural quantity
-- indicated by the two words, " Ccesura" and "Preserved. "
3. A final long Votvel or Diphthong un-elided before a
subsequent initial vowel, and made short -- so mentioned in
each case.
4. A Crasis or Synaresis, by which two syllables are re-
duced to, or pronounced as, one -- indicated by the word
"Crasis," or " Synceresis. "'
5. Diceresis, or the division of one syllable into two.
6. Synapheia, or the Continuity of Metre--sufficiently in>>
telligible, as I have arranged the syllables in each instance-
but explained more at large in my "Latin Prosody made
easy," sect. 54.
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? iv Preface.
Other licences are particularly explained in each indivi-
dual case, as they occur.
Among the examples of Synceresis, I have not deemed it
worth while to notice every appearance of Cui and Huic,
which so frequently occur as monosyllables, and so rarely
as dissyllables -- rarely, I mean, that we can prove them to
be so intended; though it seems very probable (from the
authorities quoted in my " Prosody") that Virgil meant them
for dissyllables in the following lines, and likewise in every
other place where the metre will allow us to read them as
such --
Atpuer Ascanius, ckj nunc cognomen Iulo . . . (Sua. 1, 271.
which verse unquestionably flows more smooth and harmo-
nious with the dactyl, than with a heavy spondee, terminated
with an unmusical monosyllable. And, in reading the fol-
lowing passage (iEn. 11, 644)--
Tantus in arma patet: latos huic hasta per armos
Acta tremit --
Virgil himself would, no doubt, have pronounced tos huic
a dactyl, as much better calculated, than the slow spondee,
to paint the rapid flight and prompt effect of the spear.
Neither have I chosen to increase the number of my pages,
by noticing those cases in which the particle " RE " is made
long, as in Religio, Reliquice, Retulit, Repulit, &c. because,
when the " RE" is thus lengthened, such words are gene-
rally printed with the following consonant double (Relligio,
Rettulit, &c. ) in conformity to the example set to us by the
ancients in the verb Reddo, which is never written otherwise.
Dii and Diis, being every-where used by Virgil as mono-
syllables, and generally printed Dt and Dis, are likewise
passed over unnoticed -- together with the variations of
quantity in the initial syllables of Italus, Italia, Priamust
Priamides, &c. as they can create no difficulty in scanning.
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? Preface. V
If I have, without apparent necessity, so often noticed
the diphthong " EU" in Proteus, Orpheus, and other pro-
per names of similar description; it was with the view of
more pointedly directing the young prosodian's attention to
that Greek diphthong, and guarding him against the error
of dividing it, as beginners frequently do, in such cases as
the following, to produce an apparent dactyl by such im-
proper division, with a violation of quantity in the preceding
long syllable--
Intus se vasti Proteus tegit objice saxi.
. . . Infelix Theseus, Phlegyasque miserrimus omnes . . .
. . . . Granda&vus Nereus f novit namque omnia vates.
Having said, under Georg. 2, 382, and JEn. 7, 484, that
it is perfectly optional with us to pronounce Theseidce,
-Tyrrheidce, or Tkesidce, TyrrhldeB, I think it not amiss to
quote the following remarks from a paper of mine on
"Greek Patronymics" published in the European Magazine
for August, 1817-
"ALLOW me to offer to your classical readers a few
remarks on what appears to me an erroneous method of
scanning and pronouncing many verses in Homer and other
ancient poets, Latin as well as Greek.
"The error in question (if it really be an error) takes
. place in the pronunciation of such patronymic titles as
Atreides, Peleides, &c. in which the generality of readers
make the EI a diphthong: and, to determine whether we do
or do not rightly scan and pronounce them, it may be proper,
in (be first instance, to consider the mode of their deriva-
tion.
"The simplest rule (as I apprehend) for the formation of
an ordinary regular patronymic from a proper name, is --
"To cut off the final vowel of the dative singular, (count-
ing the subscript iota as nothing) and to add IAH2 (with the
a
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? vi Preface.
I short) for the masculine, and IS for the feminine; as, frem
Tvniogv, masculine TuyXajiJn? , and feminine Twiaps.
"For the Latinist who does not understand Greek, the
rule may be --
"To cut off the final vowel or diphthong from the Latin
dative singular, and to add IDES (with the I short) for the
masculine, and IS for the feminine; as, from Tyndaro, Tyn-
darides and Tyndaris; from Atlanti, Atlantides and Atlantis.
"But, where a long syllable immediately precedes the
termination IAHS or IDES, as here in- Atlantides, (which, in
that shape, could not possibly gain admission into heroic or
elegeiac metre) the poets claim the privilege of inserting ashort
"A" after the "I," and thus obtaining a convenient dactyl,
as Atlantiades, Laertiades, Anchisiades, Telamontades, Am-
phitryomades, &c. and they take a similar liberty with the
feminine IS, converting it into IAS, as Thaumantias.
'" Agreeably to the preceding rule, the primitive Atrtus
will, either from the Greek dative Atje-i or the Latin Atre-o,
give us the patronymic Ar^-iln; or Atre-ides, in either lan-
guage four syllables, making a dactyl and a semifoot; and,
by the same process, we obtain nuAs-jStw, Pele-ides, &c. Or,
If the Greek scholar, making two rules instead of one, should
choose to direct, that, from primitives which form the genii
tive in OE, the patronymic be formed by adding AHS to the
dative, it ultimately amounts to the same thing; the natural
un-contracted dative being AtjiJ, IThXeI, of three syllables,,
which will give ArjtiJn? , TI>i?