Excerpt from Mythology for Versification, or a Brief Sketch of the Fables of the Ancients: Prepared to Be Rendered Into Latin Verse, and Designed for the Use of Classical Schools All that I have done to the present Edition has been, first, to make a few additions to the Rules of Prosody prefixed, derived chie y from Dr Donald son's Latin Grammar; secondly, to correct a few actual mistakes, and some other places, where liberties were taken which the greater strictness of recent scholarship refuses to sanction; and thirdly, to introduce a more uniform system in the help supplied, in which I have always, unless for some special reason to the contrary, given the word which will be found in the Dictionary, leaving the. 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."