this the case in Latin 57; and chiefly in the language of the people, of which the writings of the comic poets [Terence however less than his fellows] are a more or less faithful representative, and against the slackness of which the language of the classical writers of the Augustan age working on Greek models is an emphatic protest. This tendency of Latin to shorten the final syllable is a decisive argument against those who hold that e. g. senex dari should be pronounced s'nex d'ri 58 rather than senex dari. But the exx. quoted below will show that such shortening is by no means confined to the last syllable: and we must remember also that in early times double letters were not written, which accounts for e. g. 806 intell. 666 supĕll. 59. 1. Vowels are found short before (1) c and a consonant. hic 209, 535, 626, 739. hoc 819, 1000. (2) d and a consonant. 859, 934. id 723, 940, 979. (3) 1 and a consonant. (4) m and a consonant. decěm m. 662. enim 694, 937. ăd 150 [266], 648. apud supěll. 666. intĕll. 806. němpe 307. parumne 546. restim 686. (5) n and a consonant. in 266, 862. hanc 370. inp. 439. ind. 681. uolunt 725. int. 806. ităn 810. egon 999. 57 Bentl. Introd., p. xvI., Illud sane in Lingua Latina notabile, ne unum quidem uerbum praeter Monosyllaba Tonum in ultima habuisse. He quotes passages confirming this remark from Quint., Prisc., and other grammarians. 58 So Bentl. on Eun. 357. Cf. Peile, p. 322 note, 323 note. 59 Peile, p. 322 note. Wagner, Terence, p. 19. Ritschl on Plaut. Trin. 964, Quod accepisti tolerandum esse iam tum intellexi cum Most. 908, áge ǎccumbe atque alia alibi similia intacta reliqui. (6) p and a consonant. patěr 601. argenti 55760. (8) s and a consonant. ipsius 725. ipsa 960. puěr 50. prior 342, 532. ěst 178, 411, 513, 563, 600, 638. mayıs 10. östend. 793. žsne 852. (9) t and consonant. 352. redit 686. (10) x. senex 346. ut 396, 415, 733. negăt 2. Final long vowels are found short1. Qui 27, 911; abi 59, 309, 563, 712, 777, 994; dari 261; boni 516; modř 529; [saluě 609]; Chremě 609; uiri 787; vidě 803; ualě 883; nouč 972. 3. Long syllables not final are found short [ežus, 113], uerěbamini 902. 4. Long syllables afterwards shortened retain their quantity. Stetit 9; angerēt 160; accidāt 245; accidet 250; quaereret 297; uendidit 510; erāt 654; [censuit 775]; Sophronā (Zwopóvn) 86563. 5. Syllables are lengthened by the accent. Ita 542; malā, 556, 6. Synizesis of vowels occurs. Eius 355, 775; eamus 562; dehort. 910; huvus 97164. 7. Hiatus is found, but very rarely, 27, 966. A hiatus is not allowable except in the caesura of the verse or when a break is caused by division of the dialogue. 60 Ritschl on Plaut. Trin. 316. 61 Peile, p. 327. Publ. Sch. Lat. Gr., pp. 56, 546 note. 62 Publ. Sch. Lat. Gr., pp. 522, 523. 63 Peile, p. 326. Roby, § 203. Plaut. Tr. 261. 64 Bentl. Introd., p. xiv., Durius quidem Nostratibus sonant huius, cuius &c., in unam syllabam contracta: uerum id eo euenit, quod nos hodie male pronuntiemus. Notum enim est eruditis consonantes I et U apud Latinos eodem fuisse sono quo hodie Y et W. DIDASCALIA. INCIPIT. TERENTI. PHORMIO . ACTA LVDIS. ROL. POSTVMIO. ALBINO . L. CORNELIO MANIS MERVLA AEDILIBVS. CVRVLIBVS. EGIT. L. AMBIVIVS TVRPIO. MODOS. FECIT. FLACCVS. CLAVDI TIBIS INPARIBVS. TOTA. GRAECA. APOLLODORV EPIDICAZOMENOS. FACTAST. IIII. C. FANNIO. M G. SVLPICI APOLLINARIS PERIOCHA. Chremétis frater áberat peregre Démipho relícto Athenis Ántiphone fílio. Chremés clam habebat Lémni uxorem ac fíliam, Athénis aliam cóniugem et amantem únice gnatúm fidicinam. Máter e Lemno áduenit Athénas: moritur: uírgo sola (aberát Chremes) funús procurat. Íbi eam cum uisam Ántipho amáret, opera párasiti uxorem áccipit. Pater ét Chremes reuérsi fremere. Deín minas trigínta dant parasíto, ut illam cóniugem habéret ipse. Argénto hoc emitur fídicina. Vxórem retinet Antipho a patruo ágnitam. 5 ΤΟ |