of that age may well have allowed himself such a licence. With the decline of Latin the laws of quantity were less rigidly observed, as may be seen from the following instances which I have collected from the Anthologia Latina (ed. Baehrens). (1) lengthenings: 206. 23, negavere deum miseri, quibus ultimus esset; 323. 2, prodidit atque urbem his Brisĕīdă suam; 330. 2 inseditque bovi non revisura parem; 378. 71, menteque fugaci; 495. 1, bella die nocteque; 494. 2, impleret cuncti viscera nēgŏtii; 415. 11, urbe Periander genitus; 528. 4, philosophum revocat. (2) shortenings: 211. 81, statuere primordia rerum; 378. 47, depositumque suum măluit committere blandis; 433. 13, vel negăture veni; ibid. 20, laqueos rogătura resolvi.

81. subter Broukhusius; super S T: cp. Calpurn. 1. 5, vaccae molle sub hirsuta latus explicuere genista. See Schenkl's Calpurnius, p. lx.

82. For tutus Baehrens conjectures laetus.

90. fiam S; faciam T. uti Rivinus; ut S T.

91. Apollo Thomasius; foebus S T. Some change is required to save the metre: perhaps we should read perdidi Musam tacendo, Phoebe, nec me respicis.