This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...of the metre. With these exceptions'), the tables of unmetrical scansion from the inscriptions include all the iambic trimeters (senarii), iambic dimeters and trochaic tetrameters (septenarii) found in Biicheler, Carmina Epigraphica; further, all the that were very often introduced between the time when the verses were ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...of the metre. With these exceptions'), the tables of unmetrical scansion from the inscriptions include all the iambic trimeters (senarii), iambic dimeters and trochaic tetrameters (septenarii) found in Biicheler, Carmina Epigraphica; further, all the that were very often introduced between the time when the verses were originally composed, and the time when they were cut into the stone. These irregularities are, of course, especially frequent in the inscriptions on tomb-stones, and are of several kinds. First, they may be due to the workman who carved the stone. In such cases they are usually mistakes in spelling, transposition of words or their transfer to another line, the use of one word for another of similar meaning, &c Or the mistakes may be due to the person who had the carving done. This class of cases is very prolific in troublesome difficulties. Confusion is usually caused by adapting some lines that originally belonged to another tomb or were taken from some other source, and changing them not only to suit the name of the person on whose tomb they were to stand, but frequently also to fit the different circumstances. Being done by unskillful people who had little command of language and still less control over the metre, the result is what one might expect. There are all grades of changes and it is a fortunate case when a simple addition was made in the middle or at the end of the verse. Frequently a person seems to have had put upon the stone something he recalled inaccurately from memory. Or a person with some knowledge, apparently, of metrical rules, will in his alterations avoid faults in quantity, but will change the length of the line, sometimes making the hexameter, for instance, five, but more often seven, and occasionally even eight ...
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