W.M. Lindsay
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 2000 (repr. of 1972 edition).
cloth, dj.
Book Number 24198
This study, which quickly established itself as the classic work on metre and prosody in Plautus, deals in meticulous detail with the "egregious folly" of the so-called law of "breves breviantes", and with the relation of verse-ictus with the accent of ordinary speech in contest of the comedies.