METRE AND  PROSODY: The most important treatises (apart from those mentioned under " Editions ") are Muller, Plautinische Prosodie (1869); Spengel, Reformvorschlage zur Metrik der lyrischen Versarten(1882); Klotz,Grundzuge altromischerMetrik(1890); Skutsch, Forschungen zur lateinischen Grammatik and Metrik (1892), lambenkiirzung and Synizese (Satura Viadrina) (1896), continued by the author in a work called PEpas (1903); Leo, Die plautinischen Cantica and die hellenistische Lyrik (1897); Maurenbrecher, Hiatus and Verschleifung im alien Latein (1899); Ahlberg, De proceleusmaticis (1900), De correptione iambica plautina (1901); Jacobsohn, Quaestiones plautinae (1904) ; Radford, on the Recession of the Latin Accent " (in Amer . Journ . Phil., 1904), " Studies in Latin Accent and Metric " (in Trans . Amer . Phil . Assoc., 1904), " Plautine synizesis " (ibid., 1905, continued in Amer . Journ . Phil., 1906), (a work on cognate subjects is promised by Exon) ; Sudhaus, Der Au:bau der plautinischen' Cantica (1909), SYNTAx.—The most recent works bearing on Old Latin syntax, are Sjogren, Zum Gebrauch des Futurums im Altlateinischen (1906); Lindsay, Syntax of Plautus (1907); Sonnenschein, The Unity of the Latin Subjunctive (1910) . A work by H . Thomas, entitled A catalogue raisonne of the Subjunctive in Plautus, in support of the theory of the unity of origin of the Latin Subjunctive, is announced as in preparation . LExicA.—The only completed, lexicon (apart from the Indices of Naudet, 1832, and Weise, 1838) is that of Pareus (2nd ed., 1634) . New lexica have been begun by Waltzing (1900; apparently not to be continued) and Lodge (1901;' in progress) .

The latter work, when completed, will be indispensable .