Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Nature and History of Greek and Latin Poetry, More Particularly of the Dramatic Species, Tending to Ascertain the Laws of Comic Metre in Both Those Languages: To Show, I. That Poetical Licenses Have No Real Existence, but Are Mere Corruptions; II. That the Verses of Plautus, Terence, Pindar, and Horace, Are in Many Instances Erroneously Regulated; And to Suggest a More Rational and Musical Division That, as'some'of the Verses in'both those au thors have been decidedly shown to be, not Iam bic, but Bacchiac, ' because they contradict the rules of the former, and agree With those of the latter, there is every foundation to conclude they meantibacchiac to be the kind they employed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.