Prosodia Graeca, or an Exposition of the Greek Metres by Rules and Examples - Also a Treatise on the Use of the Digamma in the Poems of Homer, With Rules for the Structure of Greek Hexameter Verse; To Which Is Subjoined an Appendix on ... #270426

In preparing this Fourth Edition of the Prosodia Graeca, I have endeavoured to comprise within it as much information on the Greek metres as appeared to me really useful for Scholars. Some errors have been corrected in the list of words where the doubtful vowels are pointed out as being long, and several other vocables have been added. It would have been desirable to have augmented the list by adding a number of proper names and names of places, but this would have increased the volume to an undue size; and besides, it is the less necessary, as most of these words are to be found in Dictionaries and other Elementary books in the hands of almost every Student. I think I may venture to assert that, with these exceptions very few words will be found omitted in which any of the doubtful vowels are long; and that such Students as consult the work for the purpose of ascertaining the quantity of any particular syllable, if the word is not found either specified or included under some particular class, may rest satisfied that the syllable is short.