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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 830 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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METRE AND See also:PROSODY: The most important See also:treatises (apart from those mentioned under " See also:Editions ") are See also:Muller, Plautinische Prosodie (1869); Spengel, Reformvorschlage zur Metrik der lyrischen Versarten(1882); See also:Klotz,Grundzuge altromischerMetrik(1890); Skutsch, Forschungen zur lateinischen Grammatik and Metrik (1892), lambenkiirzung and Synizese (Satura Viadrina) (1896), continued by the author in a See also:work called PEpas (1903); See also:Leo, See also:Die plautinischen Cantica and die hellenistische Lyrik (1897); See also:Maurenbrecher, See also:Hiatus and Verschleifung See also:im See also:alien Latein (1899); Ahlberg, De proceleusmaticis (1900), De correptione iambica plautina (1901); Jacobsohn, Quaestiones plautinae (1904) ; Radford, on the Recession of the Latin See also:Accent " (in Amer. Journ. Phil., 1904), " Studies in Latin Accent and Metric " (in Trans. Amer. Phil. Assoc., 1904), " Plautine synizesis " (ibid., 1905, continued in Amer. Journ. Phil., 1906), (a work on cognate subjects is promised by Exon) ; Sudhaus, Der Au:bau der plautinischen' Cantica (1909), SYNTAx.—The most See also:recent See also:works bearing on Old Latin syntax, are Sjogren, Zum Gebrauch See also:des Futurums im Altlateinischen (1906); See also:Lindsay, Syntax of See also:Plautus (1907); Sonnenschein, The Unity of the Latin Subjunctive (1910). A work by H. See also:Thomas, entitled A See also:catalogue raisonne of the Subjunctive in Plautus, in support of the theory of the unity of origin of the Latin Subjunctive, is announced as in preparation. LExicA.—The only completed, See also:lexicon (apart from the Indices of Naudet, 1832, and Weise, 1838) is that of Pareus (2nd ed., 1634). New lexica have been begun by Waltzing (1900; apparently not to be continued) and See also:Lodge (1901;' in progress).

The latter work, when completed, will be indispensable.

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