[4] Handbook of Phonetics, § 263.
[5] Die physiologischen Grundlagen der neuhochdeutschen Verskunst, 1871, p. 2.
[6] Sweet, Handbook of Phonetics, Oxford, 1877, p. 92.
[7] Cf. Transactions of the Philological Society, 1875–6, London, 1877, pp. 397 ff.; Chapters on English Metre, by Prof. J. B. Mayor, 2nd ed., pp. 5 ff.
[8] Transact., p. 398.
[9] They are used by Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesy, 1589, Arber’s reprint, p. 141.
[10] J. Grimm’s ed. of Andreas and Elene, 1840, pp. lv ff.
[11] Cf. Lehrs, de Aristarchi studiis Homericis, 1865, p. 475.
[12] Cf. J. Huemer, Untersuchungen über die ältesten lateinisch-christlichen Rhythmen, Vienna, 1879, p. 60.
[13] In the Icelandic terminology this is skothending, Möbius, Háttatal, ii, p. 2.