The Literary Saturnian, the Stichic Norm of Italico-Keltic, Romanic, and Modern Rhythm, Vol. 2: Naevius and the Later Italic Tradition (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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I. The italico-keltic Saturnian the Source of Modern Accentual Rhythm. - We have seen in Bulletin No. 5, The Literary Saturm'an, Part I: Lim'us Andronicus, that the tripudie principle of the initial and penultimate acute (a), and final grave (g) stress, which is violated rhythmically by the sequences G G and G:' A-o, continued through out the length and breadth of the italico-keltic or west-indoeuropean world, and from the twilight dawn of literary tradition to the last breath of italico-keltic speech and culture, to be the basal and ever-present law of accent and rhythm.

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