Somniculosa fuit, pinguisque ÆnEia nutrix:
Æneas's nurse was sleepy and fat.
Æneas has often enough been represented in _arms_.
In Latin mark, that every dipthong
'S as long as any stage-coach whip-thong;
Except before a vowel it goes,
When 'tis as short as Elsler's clothes.
Words derived from others are tarred with the same stick, that is, are
assigned the same quantity as those which they are derived from, with
some few exceptions, which we must trouble the student to fish for.
Compounds follow the quantity of their simple words, as from l{e}go
l{e}gis, to read, comes perl{e}go, to read through.
By the way, _reading_ does not always induce _reading through_; though
we hope it may in the case of the C. L. G.
If to a preterperfect tense belong
Two only syllables, the first is long;
As vEni, vIdi, vIci, speech so cool.
Which Cæsar made to illustrate our rule;
To which we need not cite exceptions small.
Look in your Gradus and you'll find them all.
Consult also the Eton Grammar, and works of the poets, passim, as well
for exceptions to the above as to the two following rules:
1. Words that double the first syllable of the preterperfect tense have
the first syllable short-- as c{e}c{i}dI from c{a}d{o}, &c.
Fortis Higinbottom c{e}cidit terramque m{o}mordit:
Brave Higinbottom fell and bit the ground.