LATELY PUBLISHED, BY SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., AND WHITTAKER AND CO. By the same Author, Third Edition. Price 4s. 6d. WITH A COPIOUS TREATISE ON ACCENTUATION PREFIXED, EXERCISES ON GREEK PROSE COMPOSITION; Consisting of Translations from the most approved Greek Authors, for Re-translation; the passages being selected, so as to comprehend much valuable information on Grecian Affairs. Subjoined are numerous Notes, explaining the Constructions to be adopted, and pointing out distinctions between Greek words of the same general meaning: presenting, also, Useful Hints for Translation into English, and suggesting reflections on the matter of the extract, so as to excite thought and investigation on the part of the Youthful Reader. Second Edition. Price 4s. 6d. EXERCISES ON LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION; Consisting of Interesting and Instructive Passages, translated from Eminent Latin Authors, for Re-translation; with Copious Notes on the Constructions and the Matter. To which are subjoined, HINTS FOR THE COMPOSITION OF THEMES; Illustrated by about Thirty Examples of Themes, and concluding with a Collection of Theses. ON THE COMPOSITION OF GREEK IAMBIC VERSE, WITH A TREATISE ON THE TRAGIC METRICAL SYSTEMS, AND An Outline of Attic Prosody. BY THE REV. B. W. BEATSON, M.A. FELLOW OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. FOR THE USE OF THE KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY. ADVERTISEMENT. THIS little Work was originally intended for private distribution among the Pupils of the King's School, Canterbury; but as several Gentlemen engaged in tuition thought it adapted to more extensive circulation, it is now offered to the Public. It commences with a brief explanation of the laws of the Iambic Metre as employed in Greek Tragedy, and a statement of the Rules of Prosody according to the usage of the Greek Tragedians. Originality was evidently precluded; and nothing has been attempted beyond perspicuity, and copiousness of illustration by numerous examples. For information on the quantity of radical syllables, or other syllables to which the remarks do not apply, the Student must seek in a Prosodiacal Lexicon, or in the Indexes of Beck to Euripides, and those in imitation of Beck to Eschylus and Sophocles. These last will be found to offer many advantages to a beginner. They will lay before him the Attic uses of Tragedy, distinct and free from intermixture with Epic, Lyric, or Comic peculiarities of construction and quantity, which, in a general Prosodiacal Lexicon to the whole body of Greek poetry of every age and of every style, will be continually ensnaring him. They will suggest to him those epithets alone which the Tragic stage admits, instead of a promiscuous collection, drawn in great part from poets of styles too enthusiastic, and too little assimilated to the language of life and business, to harmonize with the sober tone of Attic Tragedy. They will enable him to ascertain what tenses and what moods of tenses enter into dramatic verse, a point of great importance to correctness; as few verbs have both the passive aorists, or |