name of Latini, built the city of Lavinium, and obtained the right of succeeding to the kingdom of Latinus. Thus he secured a dwelling place in Italy, and introduced his gods into Latium, according to the purpose indicated in the beginning of the poem.

48.

74.

256. dehinc as in l. 131.

303. videt lengthens its final syllable under the ictus. See grammars, under Diastole.

See

332. The final vowel of -que at the end
of the verse is elided before the
initial vowel of the next.
grammars, under Synapheia.
405. The final vowel of dea is retained.
See grammars, under Hiatus.

448. -que is elided as in 1. 332.

Steterunt; as in II, 774.
matri and Neptuno do not elide
the final -i and -0, and the verse
is spondaic.

91. The final vowel of the first -que is
long under the ictus.

112. nemus; as videt in I, 308.
122. Idomenea; as Ilionea, I, 611.
136. Conubiis; trisyllable, as Conubio in
1, 73.

Insulae; the final diphthong of In-
sulae is unelided and is shortened.
See grammars, under Hiatus.
The final vowel of gravia is long
under the ictus.

211.

464.

and the verse is spondaic.

651. peteret; as videt in 1. 308.

504.

Casus; as videt in I, 308.

663. The last syllable of iactetur as in peteret, above.

602.

Scio is scanned as one syllable by

synaeresis.

16. abiete; a dactyl; ie forms one syl- | 126. lable by synaeresis, and the first 168.

Pectoribus; as videt in I, 308.
Conubio; as in I, 73.

position. Thus: ab-ye-te.

Conubiis; as in III, 136.

syllable is lengthened as if by 222. adloquitur; as Pectoribus in 1. 64.

235. spe does not elide the final -e.

IRREGULARITIES OF SCANSION

558. -que at the end elides -e by syna- 175. ariete; as in II, 492.

496. baltei; dissyllable by synaeresis of 535. Hyllo does not elide the final -o.

764. Nerei; dissyllable by synaeresis of 550. domitor; as videt in I, 308.

31. Parrhasio does not elide the final -o. 905. Genua; dissyllable (genva), as in 69. languentis; as videt in I, 308.

ABBREVIATIONS

a., active.

abl., ablative.
acc., accusative.
adj., adjective.
adv., adverb.
c., common.

cf. (confer), compare.
comp., comparative.
conj., conjunction.
dat., dative.

def., defective.
dem., demonstrative.
dep., deponent.

dim., diminutive.
dissyll., dissyllable.
distrib., distributive.
encl., enclitic.

et al. (et alibi), and elsewhere; i.e., not unfrequent.

[NOTE. The parts of compound words are not indicated separately when they appear unmodified in the compound form, nor when prepositions in composition are modified only according to the general rules mentioned under the definitions of prepositions.

In verbs, only the principal parts are given which are understood to be in actual use; and generally one of the numerals, 1, 2, 3, 4, designates the conjugation, and therefore the form of the infinitive.

The numerals following definitions refer to passages in the text.]