1st Edition

Key to Latin Hexameter Verse An Aid to Composition

By S. E. Winbolt Copyright 1903
76 Pages
by Routledge

76 Pages
by Routledge

76 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1903. Samuel Edward Winbolt (1868-1944) spent his entire working life from 1892 to 1926 teaching classics at his old school, Christ's Hospital. In his later years, he was best known for his work on Romano-British history and archaeology; but Latin Hexameter Verse, published in 1903, is the book by which he deserves to be remembered and which has earned him his place in the... Read more
Preface; 1. Pauses; 2. Caesuras; 3. The beginning of the verse; 4. The end of the verse; 5. The meeting of vowels, consonants, and composite sounds; 6. Metrical conveniences; 7. Rhythmical structures; 8. Descriptive verse, etc.; Exercises; Appendix; Key to exercises in Latin Hexameter Verse.

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