Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2010
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Vltimarum syllabarum naturas, sicut proposueras, breviter lucideque digessi. in qua re mea audacia tuo defenditur imperio. nam hoc opus, dum velut facile ac per se patens multi reliquerunt, difficilius reddïderunt.
Quamquam rationem litterae et syllabae in Donati artibus habeamus, tamen breviandi causa aliqua ex his decerpsimus, quae ad scientiam metrorum proficere credimus.
Igitur primas syllabas omnium partium orationis duobus modis considerabimus, natura et positione. natura tripertita est. nam aut diphthongo syllaba longa esse cognoscitur, ut ae oe au eu ei, aut
B codex olim Bobiensis, nunc Vindobonensis 16
F codex Frisingensis 81
l codex Leidensis bibliothecae publicae 122
e codex Emmeramus G. 121
ς editiones veteres, ex quibus adhibitae sunt hae,
editio Mediolanensis Parrhasii a. 1504
editio Tubingensis a. 1537
editio Basileensis a. 1584
ex his codicum B et F integra exhibita est scriptura. codicum interpolatorum l et e discrepantia tum potissimum, cum B et F inter se dissentiunt, adscripta est.
exemplo; quaeritur enim, utrum syllaba longa sit an brevis, ut ‘Musamihi causas memora’: aut ex ∥ conpositione figurae, ut si nescias qualis sit pius, ex conpositione, quae est impius, qualis sit pi cognoscitur; li|cet in aliquantis hoc fallat. nam cum dicimus nubere, nu longa est; item cum dicimus innuba aut pronuba, fit brevis nu in conpositione.
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