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Rh Or in such words, not enclitic, as cannot begin a sentence or a verse :

Prom. V. 107.

''Track. 718.''

Prom. V. 846.

ŒD. T. 142.

Soph. Electr. 413.

In the numerous instances of so placed, it deserves remark, that is always subjoined to its verb, and that with elision, as in the line quoted. (Yide Porson, xxvi. =28.)

3. Where words like and  so given, ought in Attic orthography to be written thus :  and :

Phœn. 759.

Ale. 687.

(Vide Porson, xxxiv. v. = 31.)

4. And where in the plays of Sophocles, the dative cases plural of and are exhibited as Spondees, thus,, , when that Tragedian, however strange it may appear, employed those pronouns in his verse actually as Trochees. In that pronunciation, they are by some Grammarians written, ,, but, , more generally :

Electr. 1328.

Œd. Col. 25.

In which two lines and  would vitiate the metre.

(Vide Porson, xxxv. = 32.)

5. One particular case seems to have created a very needless per-plexity ; namely, where the verse is concluded by a trisyllabic word with certain consonants initial which do not permit the short vowel precedent to form a short syllable. (Vide Porson, xxxviii. = 34, 5.) The following verses, as being supposed to labour under the vicious termination, are recommended by the Professor to the sagacity of young Scholars for correction : Hecub. 717.

Androm. 347.

Iph. A. 531.

(In these verses, also, from Euripides, the very same difficulty, if it be one, is involved :

Bacchæ 1284.

Electr. 850. )

Here the word preceding the final Cretic must be either a Trochee or a Spondee. If it is a Trochee, all is well : nothing more need Rh