e beginning of the next; as

OccultA spolia hi Croceo de Colle ferebant:

These persons brought the secret spoils from Saffron Hill.

A _short_ vowel before a mute, a liquid following, is rendered common,
as in the word _patris_.

Sunt quibus ornatur Jenkins femoralia pAtris:

The breeches that Jenkins is rigged out in are his father's.

A vowel before another is always short, as t{u}a, thy, memor{i}a, memory.

Except the genitive cases of pronouns in ius, where the i is a common i,
although alter{i}us has always a short _i_ and alIus a long _i_.

Except, likewise, those genitive and dative cases of the fifth
declension where the vowel _e_, like Punch's nose, is made long between
two _i_'s, as faciEi, of a face.

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The syllable _fi_ also in fIo is long, except e and r follow together,
as f{i}erem, f{i}eri.

FIent quae "F{i}eri Facias" mandata vocantur:

The writ which is called "Fieri Facias" will be made.

Fi. fa. is a legal instrument that deprives a poor man of his mattress
that a rich one may lounge on his ottoman. Ca. Sa. is a similar
benevolent contrivance for punishing misfortune as felony.

DIus, heavenly, has the first syllable long;-- Diana, common: and so has
the interjection Ohe!

Thus there's a common medium of connexion,
Between a goddess and an interjection.

A vowel before another in Greek words is sometimes long, as

Caerula, PIerides, sunt vobis tegmina crurum:

Oh, Muses, your stockings are blue.

Also in Greek possessives, as

Somniculosa fuit, pinguisque AEnEia nutrix:

AEneas's nurse was sleepy and fat.

AEneas has often enough been represented in _arms_.

In Latin mark, that every dipthong
'S as long as any stage-coach whip-thong;
Except before a vowel it goes,
When 'tis as short as Elsler's clothes.

Words derived from others are tarred with the same stick, that is, are
assigned the same quantity as those which they are derived from, with
some few exceptions, which we must trouble the student to fish for.

Compounds follow the quantity of their simple words, as from l{e}go
l{e}gis, to read, comes perl{e}go, to read through.

By the way, _reading_ does not always induce _reading through_; though
we hope it may in the case of the C. L. G.

If to a preterperfect tense belong
Two only syllables, the first is long;
As vEni, vIdi, vIci, speech so cool.
Which Caesar made to illustrate our rule;
To which we n