Neglect of Position is perceptibly commoner in the Odyssey than in the Iliad. Apart from cases in which the necessities of metre can be pleaded. viz. proper names and words beginning with A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect - Page 348by David Binning Monro - 1891 - 436 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Shewan - 1911 - 354 pages
...position," we may start from the following statement by Dr. Monro (HG 344, repeated, Odyssey, 333):— " Neglect of Position is perceptibly commoner in the...pleaded, viz. proper names and words beginning with ^ —, it will be found that the proportion of examples is about 3:1. It will be seen, too, that some... | |
| Alexander Shewan - 1911 - 340 pages
...position," we may start from the following statement by Dr. Monro (EG 344, repeated, Odyssey, 333):— " Neglect of Position is perceptibly commoner in the...necessities of metre can be pleaded, viz. proper names sftid words beginning with « -, it will be found that the proportion of examples is about 3:1. It... | |
| John Adams Scott - Literary Criticism - 1965 - 292 pages
...Homeric Hymns such a genitive is found once in each nineteen verses. Monro, Homeric Grammar, 344, says : "Neglect of position is perceptibly commoner in the Odyssey than in the Iliad." By neglect of position is meant the scansion of a vowel as short before a mute consonant and a liquid.... | |
| John Adams Scott - Epic poetry, Greek - 1921 - 298 pages
...Homeric Hymns such a genitive is found once in each nineteen verses. Monro, Homeric Grammar, 344, says: "Neglect of position is perceptibly commoner in the Odyssey than in the Iliad." By neglect of position is meant the scansion of a vowel as short before a mute consonant and a liquid.... | |
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