Excerpt from Elements of Latin Hexameters and Pentameters The beginner then is on no account permitted to violate the following restrictions and usages, which may be considered as a supplement to his prosody. Although instances occur, in the best Latin poets, of deviations from them, which prevent them from passing into rules, yet are these liberties so sparingly scattered through the most admired works even of the greatest length, that learners should by no means be encouraged to adopt them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.