ᎢᎻᎬ ᎪᎡᎢ

OF

LATIN POETRY.

FOUNDED ON THE WORK OF

M. C. D. JANI.

341829

BY A MASTER OF ARTS, AND FELLOW Of a COLLEGE

IN CAMBRIDGE.

CAMBRIDGE:

PRINTED FOR W. P. GRANT;

AND SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL,

LONDON.

1828.

༡/༠ .

ADVERTISEMENT.

IT was my original intention, that this little work should be nothing more than a revisal of the "Ars Poetica Latina" of CHRISTIAN JANI. In acting with this view, however, I found that there were in that learned and ingenious treatise, many things superfluous and unnecessary for the object proposed; and, on the other hand, many most important points omitted, or very slightly noticed. Another objection to the popular use of JANI is the language in which he writes. To young persons, for whom such a work is principally intended, modern Latinity is a very repulsive and laborious study. The difficulty they find in understanding the author's words prevents them from receiving the full benefit of his meaning. Taking, however, the plan of JANI's book as the ground-work of my own, changing his language to the vernacular, adopting most of his valuable sug