Latin prose composition.

p. 77

The history of metres confirms this. The Greek trochaic tetrameter found a ready welcome in Latium, and was the metre in which at a triumph the soldiers sang of their general (often in ribald and uncompli- mentary strains, a kind of propitiation of Nemesis):- Gallos Caesar in triumphum duxit, idem in curiam.

p. 84

In Greek lyric poetry-especially choric poetry -there is often much greater freedom and variety; the poet is more like a musical composer-in early times he did compose the music-and he constructs 1 All of them always complete, if we take pauses into account: e.g., the last foot of a trochaic tetrameter is not really incomplete, or incomplete in rhythm. The long syllable is followed by a pause equal to a short syllable, a pause for which the ancient symbol was (Lambda), initial of Xeîµµa. The trochaic tetrameter is ~~ | -~ |- ~ | ~ ~ || ~ ~ | ~ ~ |-~|-^. --

p. 128

In- fin. and Perfect Subj., 63, 64; in or. obl., 70 Terence, Intr. p. 3 theatrum, 160 specialist, 92 (b) spectator, spectantes, 26 theology, 119 (v) speculations, 126 speculum, 154 stare, for a Pass., in poets, 15 Statius, a metaphor in, 88: a graecism, 97 stilus, 159 Subjunctive, in general- isations, 52; Poten- tial, 53, 55; Perfect Subj. after quin, 63; after ut, 65, 66 toga, togatus, 146, foot- note tragicus (poeta), 160 tragoedus, 160 Trochaic Tetrameter, 105 truth, 127 tyranny, tyrannis, 141. ut, expressing_result, with Perf. or Imperf., 65, 66 uxor, 5. vapulo, 14 vel, 31 velim, 54 vēnire, 14 Verbal Phrases, with Pl.