[7] Catullus, xliv.
[8] I borrow this phraseology from Henry's Aeneidea, where the phenomenon is infinitely illustrated.
[9] Said to be intended by the poet for a portrait of himself.
[10] The translator read apparently, with Bentley, bruma superbiae.
[11] A composite metre, an anapaestic paroemiac followed by a trochaic ithyphallic.
[12] Essays I, pp. 55 sqq.
[13] Fragments and Specimens of Early Latin pp. 396-7 and passim. Wordsworth's competence to treat questions of quantity may be judged from the fact that in a hexameter verse he makes the first syllable of caro (carnis) long: p. 567, l. 16.
[14] Classical Review XXI, pp. 100 sqq.
[15] l.c., p. 56 note.
[16] Altgerm. Metrik, 1892.