. . deg. . . deg. . . deg. . deg. 
   ‘At the close of the day when the hamlet is still.’”
        —­Perley’s Gram., p. 73.
    [no . over ‘let’, sic—­KTH]

[499] Dr. Adam’s Gram., p. 267; B.  A. Gould’s, 257.  The Latin word caesura signifies “a cutting, or division.”  This name is sometimes Anglicized, and written “Cesure.”  See Brightland’s Gram., p. 161; or Worcester’s Dict., w.  Cesure.

[500] “As to the long quantity arising from the succession of two consonants, which the ancients are uniform in asserting, if it did not mean that the preceding vowel was to lengthen its sound, as we should do by pronouncing the a in scatter as we do in skater, (one who skates,) I have no conception of what it meant; for if it meant that only the time of the syllable was prolonged, the vowel retaining the same sound, I must confess as ut er [sic—­KTH] an inability of comprehending this source of quantity in the Greek and Latin as in English.”—­Walker on Gr. and L. Accent, Sec.24; Key, p. 331.  This distinguished author seems unwilling to admit, that the consonants occupy time in their utterance, or that other vowel sounds than those which name the vowels, can be protracted and become long; but these are truths, nevertheless; and, since every letter adds something to the syllable in which it is uttered, it is by consequence a “source of quantity,” whether the syllable be long or short.

[501] Murray has here a marginal note, as follows:  “Movement and measure are thus distinguished. Movement expresses the progressive order of sounds, whether from strong to weak, from long to short, or vice versa. Measure signifies the proportion of time, both in sounds and pauses.”—­Octavo Gram., p. 259.  This distinction is neither usual nor accurate; though Humphrey adopts it, with slight variations.  Without some species of measure,—­Iambic, Trochaic, Anapestic, Dactylic, or some other,—­there can be no regular movement, no “progressive order of sounds.”  Measure is therefore too essential to movement to be in contrast with it.  And the movement “from strong to weak, from long to short,” is but one and the same, a trochaic movement; its reverse, the movement, “vice versa,” from weak to strong, or from short to long, is, of course, that of iambic measure.  But Murray’s doctrine is, that strong and long, weak and short, may be separated; that strong may be short, and weak be long; so that the movement from weak to strong may be from long to short, and vice versa:  as if a trochaic movement might arise from iambic measure, and an iambic movement from trochaic feet!  This