A System of Greek Prosody and Metre: For the Use of Schools and Colleges : Together with the Choral Scanning of the Prometheus Vinctus of Aeschylus, and the Ajax and Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles : to which are Appended Remarks on Indo-Germanic Analogies |
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anacrusis analogy anapæst Anthon Antispastic ANTISTROPHE arsis Attic cæsura catalectic Charles Anthon Choriambic dimeter Compare compounds consonants cretic Dactylic dimeter dative declension dialects dimeter dimeter brachycatalectic dimeter catalectic dimeter hypercatalectic diphthong Dochmiac dimeter Dochmiac monometer Doctr dual Elem Elmsley ending Eurip feminine foot genitive Glasg Glyconic Gothic Greek Hence Hermann Homer Iambic monometer iambic trimeter iambus language Latin Leipsic lengthened Lithuanian locative masculine measure Metr monometer monometer hypercatalectic neuter nominative nouns Paræmiac penult plural poets pronoun root Sanscrit Sanscrit and Zend short vowel singular spondee stem STROPHE syzygy termination tetrameter third person tongue Trochaic Trochaic dimeter trochee verbs verse vowel words Zend αἱ ἀλλ ἂν ᾶς γὰρ δὲ εἰ εἰς ἐν ἐπὶ ίδος ΙΙ καὶ μὲν μοῖ νῦν οἱ ὂν ὃς οὗ οὐκ τὰ τε τῆς τί τὸ τὸν τοῦ τῶ τῶν ὢν