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Excerpt from Elements of Greek Prosody N ote. - Position is usually spoken of as a means only of lengthening but not of shortening syllables; nevertheless it does not appear improper to extend this usage to certain regular shortenings of syllables, which are in themselves long. For it is easily perceived, that most shortenin gs of the kind are nothing less than arbitrary, but only take place Where the shortness is founded upon the position of the sylla bles. The conditions under which this applies will be farther considered below. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.