Excerpt from Latin Prosody Made Easy: Or Rules and Authorities for the Quantity of Final Syllables in General, and of the Increments of Nouns and Verbs, Interspersed With Occasional Observations and Conjectures on the Pronunciation of the Ancient Greeks and Romans Prosody is held in high estimation in the sister island, though little known in this: I here accordingly republish them, with some al terations and correctiohs which I have not in every instance thought necessary tofipoint out to my readers. I have followed his arrangement, and adopted his precepts and explanations, so far as I-deemed them accurate and sufficient for the intended purpose: but, wherever I saw reason to dissent from him, or to make any addition to his remarks, I felt no scruple in ex ermsmg my own judgement whether advantageously or otherwise, it remains with the public to decide. 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.