Quantity and Accent in Latin : An Introduction to the Reading of Latin Aloud (Paperback)

1. Latin and English vowels; 2. Latin and English diphthongs; 3. Latin and English consonants; 4. I and U as consonants; 5. Doubled consonants; 6. Latin syllables; 7. Elision of vowels. Slurring; 8. Quantity; 9. Hidden quantity; 10. Accent; 11. General remarks on quantity and accent; 12. Prose and verse. Accent and ictus; 13. Words frequently mispronounced; 14. Exercises; 15. Selected passages, marked for reading; 16. The phrasing of Latin words for reading; 17. Ancient writers' references to Greek and Latin accent; Appendix. From the plaint of a scholarly rimester of a century ago; Bibliography.