Allitteratio Latina, or Alliteration in Latin Verse Reduced to Rule

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Excerpt from Allitteratio Latina, or Alliteration in Latin Verse Reduced to Rule: With Special Reference to Catullus, Horace, Juvenal, Lucan, Lucretius, Martial, Ovid, Persius, Phaedrus, Priapeia, Propertius, Statius, Tibullus, and VirgilTo me who had not given much attention to the complicated system inherited by my countrymen the coincidence appeared highly amusing, and, when opportunity offered, I could not help rallying my friends among the bards on their afiinity to the lunatics of the South. None of them seemed much hurt, and one of them took my fun in such good part that when I was elected Dean of Divinity in the University of Wales he addressed some compli mentary verses to me in a local journal. Needless to say, the characteristic alliteration was there in force, and I examined it with uncommon interest. It so happened that I was reading Persius at the time, and when I came upon the line (iv. 33)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.