A short system of Latin prosody: containing all the necessary rules and directions for scanning hexameter verse, and Horace's lyrics, with ease and advantage. By William Hooper, A. M. Professor of languages in the University of North Carolina.

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Title A short system of Latin prosody: containing all the necessary rules and directions for scanning hexameter verse, and Horace's lyrics, with ease and advantage. By William Hooper, A. M. Professor of languages in the University of North Carolina.
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Signed Author By William Hooper, A. M. Professor of languages in the University of North Carolina.
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Volumes 1
Pagination iv, 36
Date of Publication 1819
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Imprint Printed for the author. Lydia R. Bailey, printer, no. 10, North Street.
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Location of Printing Philadelphia US
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Length (cm) 18
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Notes Dated December 1819.
AAS Notes: Caption and running title: Latin prosody.
"To the instructers of youth in my native state ..."--Preface, p. [iii-iv].
Index to the Odes, exhibiting the first words of each, with references to the preceding numbers according to which they are scanned."--p. 35-36.
Errata slip tipped in after p. 36.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Nipps, K. Lydia Bailey,
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American Antiquarian Society copy wrapper is printed waste from pages of The road to learning made pleasant with lessons and pictures (Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson, 1803; Shaw 4987); has added leather spine. Inscribed: D. Hardeman; Amanda.
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Hooper, William. A short system of Latin prosody: containing all the necessary rules and directions for scanning hexameter verse, and Horace's lyrics, with ease and advantage. By William Hooper, A. M. Professor of languages in the University of North Carolina.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 21357, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/21357. Accessed 2024-12-23. 

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