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This book contains latin text, with notes in English.

This textbook is the first comprehensive guide to Latin verse composition to be published in over one hundred years. It combines a detailed analysis of the Roman poets' metrical practices with a series of graduated exercises designed to train the student in the composition of original Latin verse. Beginning with the dactylic hexameter and working through elegiac, lyric and dramatic meters, the exercises in this volume accomplish more than simply teaching the basic rules of prosody and versification. They also help cultivate an ear for rhythm, build vocabulary, sharpen grammatical skills...

This selection form Horace's Odes, intended for upper school level, includes 33 poems arranged in the following categories: I Religion, Philosophy and the Shortness of Life (13 poems); II Friends (5 poems); III Love (6 poems); IV The Countryside (4 poems); V The Roman State (5 poems). The Latin text is in each case faced by a short introduction and a line-by-line commentary. A brief introduction to the book covers the life of Horace and his chosen metres.

This selection includes 450 lines of Martial and 580 of Pliny the Younger. The introduction deals with scansion and gives an outline of Martial's life and this relations with Pliny. Thirty-three epigrams follow, arranged by their traditional numbering, with copious notes on each extract. The extracts from Pliny follow, covering topics such as the eruption of Vesuvius and the Christians in Bithynia.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science.

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This useful school edition of Ovid's "Metamorphoses Book VIII," first published in the "Macmillan Modern School Classics" series in 1940, contains a short Introduction (covering Ovid's life, the "Metamorphoses" in general, the myths contained in "Book VIII," and a section on metre), the Latin text, detailed Notes on the text to aid translation, and a Vocabulary.