Hephaistion.
Enchiridion de metris et poemate. Cum scholiis antiquis, et animadversionibus Joannis Cornelii De Pauw. Utrecht, Charlois 1726. cl.4°. 2 fol., 188 p., 4 fol. printed boards d. Zt. with r. verg. a. Rsch. (Heavily rubbed and damaged). Hoffmann 2,203. Brunet 5,104. Ebert 9451. - Manual on meters and poems with slides. Especially fine impression in clear Greek type. - The study of metrics started already in the time of the Sophists. Herodotus knew iambic trimeters and hexameters. Later the Peripatetici and the Alexandrians developed the technical vocabulary and methods to analyse the metrical structure of lyric parts of Greek tragedies and comedies. - Somewhat browned, partly foxing. Towards the end with worm traces in the lower margins. Margins.
