... Epitome troporum ac schematum et grammaticorum & rhetorum, ad authores tum prophanos tum sacros intelligendos non minus utilis quam necessaria

ORTHOGRAPHICA.

...are called: for some are Orthographical, some Syntactical, of which I shall speak in order.

ORTHOGRAPHICAL Schemata are so called because they concern the letters and syllables of words. These are in the poetic realm alone. The fellow-soldiers without pay (because Maecenates, withdrawing themselves from the pay-offices, appear nowhere) are compelled to serve under the standards, under an Emperor whose name is Metaplasmus.

However, Metaplasmus transformation is a certain transformation of letters or syllables in words, beyond the formula of speaking, either for the sake of necessity or of ornament, figured in verse. It is turned from the Greek μεταπλάττω I transform, into the Latin "transformo." Its species are enumerated by grammarians as fourteen in number, which are indeed divided into five classes. In the first of these are Prothesis, Aphaeresis, Syncope, Epenthesis, Apocope, and Paragoge (or Proparalepsis): of which Prothesis, Epenthesis, and Paragoge add a letter or syllable at the beginning, middle, or end of a word respectively, while the others take them away. In the second are Systole and Diastole, which change the quantity of syllables. In the third are Ecthlipsis and Synaloepha, which extrude a vowel during scanning. In the fourth are Synaeresis and Diaeresis, of which the latter divides a syllable in verse, while the former contracts it. In the fifth and final class reigns Antithesis and Metathesis, which order the station of letters or syllables to be transposed.

Logisterium is the place in which pay is given to soldiers and where they are counted. The vulgar call it "miestudlaz".

They agree in the dissonance of words or the colder words.

Under the standards.

For mere hearing in the telling of the verses, and horcelli.

The and trans.

S.P. themata.

Metaplasmy is said to be the official and old-fashioned way of speaking against the custom of speaking or writing, and because quantities are for necessity or other ornament in verse; if they are in prose, it is a Barbarism. It is a judgment written or pronounced according to the law of the Roman speech.

Aphaeresis, Syncope and Apocope. By correcting as of fewer or for other ornament.

Methe or voca.

Aeneid 1. These figures are very familiar and frequent among the Greeks, both the Attic and others. For the Attics say "d'saxus" for "saxus."

Prothesis (Apposition) is the addition of a letter or syllable at the front of a word.