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

1. JUL!580

PODLEIAN
RIVINGTONS
WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON

Orford, and Cambridge

MDCCCLXXX

[C-432.]

CONTENTS.

PAGE

XV

I

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

vii

CAUTIONS

xi

Poetic ORNAMENTS AND LICENCES

AIDS TO VERSIFICATION

xvii

NOTES ON PROSODY

xxii

PART 1.-Exercises I. to CXL.

PART II.- Exercises I. to LXII.

94

APPENDIX. —Table I. Names of Women

130

Table II. Names of Birds