Æneas’s nurse was sleepy and fat.
Æneas has often enough been represented in arms.
In Latin mark, that every dipthong
’S as long as any stage-coach whip-thong;
Except before a vowel it goes,
When ’tis as short as Elsler’s clothes.
Words derived from others are tarred with the same stick, that is, are assigned the same quantity as those which they are derived from, with some few exceptions, which we must trouble the student to fish for.
Compounds follow the quantity of their simple words, as from lĕgo lĕgis, to read, comes perlĕgo, to read through.
By the way, reading does not always induce reading through; though we hope it may in the case of the C. L. G.
If to a preterperfect tense belong