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XXVII. A further Inquiry respecting the early use of Rhime, by Sharon Turner, Esq. F. A. S. in a Letter to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
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I troubled you a few months ago with some examples of the antiquity of rhime in the western nations of Europe. Many of them had not been noticed before; especially our Saxon Aldhelm, whose work completely establishes the certainty that rhime was in existence in the seventh century. Aldhelm's authority is the more important, because he characterises the instance he quotes with the epithet “rythmico.” The instances which were given of its earlier use derived additional probability from Aldhelm's example.
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page 188 note [a] St. Austin's Works, Vol. VII, p. 3. Lyons, 1586.
page 189 note [b] Ex. lib. Retract D. August. 20.
page 189 note [c] Published among the Antiqui Rhetores Latini by Capperoaius, Strasb. 1756.
page 189 note [d] As L. ix. c 3, and L. iii c. I.
page 190 note [e] In his book on figures and elocution, excerpted from Alexander Numenius, c. 15.
page 190 note [f] De Rhetorica, p. 429.
page 190 note [g] p. 378.
page 191 note [h] See his Orator.
page 191 note [i] Περι των αρχαιων ρητορων, p. 74, 95, 96. Oxon. 1781, and read also p. 172.
page 192 note [k] Instit. Orat, L. ix. c. 3. p. 686. Ed. 1665.
page 193 note [l] It is in Gale's Opuscula Mythologica, from p. 283 to 404.
page 193 note [m] p. 300.
page 196 note [n] In his Antiquitates Italiæ Medii Ævi, Vol. III. p. 664.
page 197 note [o] We can hardly, avoid recollecting Cicero's own line, which is a middle rhime.
“O fortnatam natam me consule Romam.
page 197 note [p] Adspicite O Gives senis Ennii imagini' formam:
Hie vostrum panxit maxuma facta patrum.
Nemo me lacrumeis decöret, neque sunera fletum
Faxit: quur? Volito vivo' per ora virum.
Merula's Ennius. Leyden, 1595, P. 55.
page 198 note [q] See his Orator.
page 199 note [r] Athen. Deipno. p. 85.
page 199 note [s] Ib. p. 568.
page 199 note [t] Page 108.
page 199 note [u] Page 162.
page 200 note [x] It may be seen in the Encyclopedia Britannica, uander the article Philology.
page 200 note [y] See it corrected from Plautus, in Bochart's Canaan, p. 800.
page 200 note [z] See Muratori, who also mentions, from Huet, the rhime in I Kings, xviii. 6.
page 201 note [a] Sir William Jones's Works, Vol. I.
page 201 note [b] In admitting this supposition, I conceive that I do not jar with any authority which ascribes the origin of the hexameter verse to the Pythian oracle (Pliny, L. vii. C: 57) because, by whomsoever first used, the reason of its adoption was the same.