Prosodia Graeca, Or, An Exposition of the Greek Metres by Rules and Examples: Also a Treatise on the Use of the Digamma in the Poems of Homer, with Rules for the Structure of Greek Hexameter Verse, to which is Subjoined an AppendixStirling & Kenney, 1824 - 197 Seiten |
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Seite 21 - I%did not mean that people might transpose as they liked. Dawes lays down a rule, which, if he had been content with calling it general instead of universal, is perfectly right, that a syllable is long, in which the middle consonants /3, 7, 8, and liquids, except p, meet.
Seite 12 - Л2оНс dialect \ that the digamina, if he did use it, was not a vowel sound, but always possessed the power of a consonant, and that it is essentially necessary for his versification, I must be permitted to withhold my assent from such an opinion. I have already said that the dialect which Homer chiefly used was the Ionian and not the folian.
Seite 15 - Ionic dialect so conspicuous in Homer and Herodotus. It is altogether at variance with its character, to suppose the digamma was ever used but as a vowel sound. To introduce it as a consonant, either with the power of F or V, would be, in my opinion, to barbarise the language, and instead of representing it in the state which Homer used it, to bring it back to those rude and harsh sounds, which probably characterised it when first introduced into Greece by the wandering Pelasgi from their Scythian...
Seite 31 - I have stated, namely, that a long vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong...
Seite 33 - Greek writers it is always long, whether spelled with <i or with i. Note 2. It is a part of the above rule, that a long vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, when the word following begins with a vowel, is usually made short in the thesis of a verse. (See above, Chap. I. 4. note 1 .) [§ 17.] 3. Usage (auctoritas) alone makes the vowel in the first syllable of mater, f rater, pravus, mano (I flow), dico...
Seite 31 - ¡ng vowel or diphthong, preceding a short vowel in the end of a word, elided in consequence of the next word beginning with a vowel, remains long before that vowel.
Seite 34 - The caesural syllables of long vowels and diphthongs occur in the same book upwards of 60 times. A few examples will be sufficient to show the nature and extent of the rule, thus : П. 1. SO. flftCTÍptf M OÍXCf, ir *Лсу(», Т1)ЛЛ
Seite 21 - Certainly, if no stronger objections against Dawes's Canon can be produced, it will suffer no material hurt. In Soph. Electr. 399, Triclinius...
Seite 7 - EumoLpus are recorded as the fathers of Grecian poetry, and even of philosophy and religion ; and though some doubt may be entertained whether all of them were prior to Homer, there can be none respecting the first, since he is represented by that poet himself as having contended with the...
Seite 4 - Phœn. 595 (600). Sed ubi verbum in brevem vocalem desinit, eamque duae consonantes excipiunt, quae brevem manere patiantur, vix credo exempla indubiae fidei inveniri posse, in quibus syllaba ista producatur.