PROGRESSIVE EXERCISES IN

LATIN ELEGIAC VERSE

BY

C. GRANVILLE GEPP, M.A.

HEAD MASTER OF KING EDWARD VI. SCHOOL, STRATFORD-UPON-AVON;

LATE JUNIOR STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH OXFORD

Fifth Edition, Revised

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Orford, and Cambridge

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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

vii

CAUTIONS

xi

Poetic ORNAMENTS AND LICENCES

AIDS TO VERSIFICATION

NOTES ON PROSODY.

xxii

Part 1.- Exercises I. to CXL.

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PART II.- Exercises I. to LXII.

94

APPENDIX. —Table I. Names of Women

130

Table II. Names of Birds

132

Table III. Names of Flowers, Plants, Trees,

and Shrubs

Table IV. Technical Terms used in Versification 137

134