...anything about the way in which the contemporaries of Homer pronounced poetry. But, where so much was lefl to recitation, it is probable that the difference...lengthened, and cannot have recourse to the aid of a digamma, we find that they occupy the long place of the dactyl. We therefore account for the temporary...

...Homer pronounced poetry. But, where so much was left to recitation, it is probable that the dilference between long and short syllables, or those which occupied...lengthened, and cannot have recourse to the aid of a digamma, we find that they occupy the long place of the dactyl. We therefore account for the temporary...

...way in which the contemporaries of Homer pronounced poetry. But, 1 MaUby, Greek Gradui, p. xii. ««. where so much was left to recitation, it is probable...that when we perceive short syllables lengthened, and can not have recourse to the aid of a digamma, we find that they occupy the long place of the dactyl....

...to the second, which corresponds to the short syllables. III. We can not pretend to know any thing about the way in which the contemporaries of Homer...when we perceive short syllables lengthened, -and can not have recourse to the aid of a digamma, we find that they occupy the long place of the dactyl....

...thing about the way ш which the contemporaries of Homer pronounced poetry. But, where so much was lell to recitation, it is probable that the difference...superseded the necessity of reciting. Certain, however, it ie, that when we perceive short syllables lengthened, and can not have recourse to the aid of a digamma,...