These persons brought the secret spoils from Saffron Hill.
A short vowel before a mute, a liquid following, is rendered common, as in the word patris.
Sunt quibus ornatur Jenkins femoralia pātris:
The breeches that Jenkins is rigged out in are his father’s.
A vowel before another is always short, as tŭa, thy, memorĭa, memory.
Except the genitive cases of pronouns in ius, where the i is a common i, although alterĭus has always a short i and alīus a long i.
Except, likewise, those genitive and dative cases of the fifth declension where the vowel e, like Punch’s nose, is made long between two i’s, as faciēi, of a face.
The syllable fi also in fīo is long, except e and r follow together, as fĭerem, fĭeri.
Fīent quæ “Fĭeri Facias” mandata vocantur: