Excerpt from Elements of Greek Prosody
N ote. - Position is usually spoken of as a means only of lengthening but not of shortening syllables; nevertheless it does not appear improper to extend this usage to certain regular shortenings of syllables, which are in themselves long. For it is easily perceived, that most shortenin gs of the kind are nothing less than arbitrary, but only take place Where the shortness is founded upon the position of the sylla bles. The conditions under which this applies will be farther considered below.
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