The Captives

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Excerpt from The Captives: A Comedy of Plautus, With English Notes, for the Use of StudentsIt will be observed that I have left the subject of the metres untouched. The extreme uncertainty which pervades it was my reason for doing so. The beautiful regularity which, amidst an almost infinite variety, prevails in the lyric, epic, and tragic metres, renders them an extremely proper study for our youth, and I rejoice that a thorough knowledge of them is beginning to be considered essential to a classical education. But with the comic metres it is far otherwise. Bothe professes to find upward of forty varieties of asynartete verses, besides a per fectly irregular succession of iambic and trochaic dimeters, trimeters, and tetrameters, in the comedies of Plautus. So boundless, in fact, is the license of Plautus and Terence in this respect, that many emi nent scholars of modern times, and some of the an cients themselves, have doubted whether their verses could be reduced within any metrical rules. I be lieve it will, in almost all cases, be found that they can. But I have no disposition to introduce the young student into such an endless maze of precap tious conjecture.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.