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Excerpt from A System of Greek Prosody and Metre: For the Use of Schools and Colleges; Together With the Choral Scanning of the Prometheus Vinctus of AEschylus, and the Ajax and OEdipus Tyrannus of Sophocles; To Which Are Appended Remarks on Indo Germanic Analogies
The Choral Scanning is intended to initiate the young scholar into a department of metrical study, which, to the inexperienced, bears a very formidable name but is in reality, with the exception of a few knotty points that occasionally present themselves, a very pleasing branch of investigation, and a very inviting field for the inge nuity of the student. Choral Scanning has hitherto been regarded by many among us as a mere piece of chance-work, with no certain rules to guide or inform us when we' are correct. It is hoped that the aids af forded in the present treatise on this part of the subject will tend to show that there is even here much of cer tainty, and much that may lead to satisfactory results.
The introduction of remarks on indo-germanic Anal ogies into a work on Greek Prosody may require some explanation. The observations in question were intend ed to accompany a Greek Grammar recently published; but were withheld from the fear of making that work too voluminous and expensive. They are given here, at the end of the Prosody, partly because no'other avenue may present itself for years by which they can be brought forward, and partly out of compliment to the distinguished philologist whose name graces the dedi cation of this volume, and who has done more for com parative philology than any American scholar. Had he undertaken to write on this subject, the remarks ap pended to the present work would never have appeared.
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