Barbarisms, solecisms[171] and other faults[172] (chs. 32–34). 15. Metaplasms (poetic license in changing the forms of words) (ch. 35). 16. _Schemata_ (rhetorical figures) (ch. 36). 17. Tropes[173] (ch. 37). 18. Prose (ch. 38). 19. Metres[174] (ch. 39). 20. The fable (ch. 40). 21. History (chs. 41–44). [163] See p. 97. [164] A set of terms unfamiliar to the modern student of grammar is given under this head. Nouns having six distinct case-forms are called _hexaptota_; those having five, _pentaptota_, and so on. See 1, 7, 33. [165] Pronouns are classified according to use into _finita_, _infinita_, _minus quam finita_, _possessiva_, _relativa_, _demonstrativa_; and according to origin into _primigenia_ and _deductiva_. [166] Three conjugations are given. [167] Note part of the definition: “Adverbium autem sine verbo non habet plenam significationem, ut hodie: adjicis illi verbum, hodie scribo, et juncto verbo implesti sensum.” 1, 10, 1. [168] Isidore asserts that there are one hundred and twenty-four sorts of metrical feet, “four of two syllables, eight of three, sixteen of four, thirty-two of five, sixty-four of six.” 1, 17, 1. [169] The ten so-called accents of the grammarians are described: the acute, the grave, the circumflex, the marks to indicate long and short vowels, the hyphen, the comma, the apostrophe, the rough and smooth breathing. [170] This section is to be explained by reference to the chief controversy in the history of the science of grammar in classical times, that between analogy and anomaly, or whether grammatical regularity or irregularity was the more basic phenomenon. In Capella’s grammar _analogia_ is the heading under which declensions of nouns and conjugations of verbs are given, while exceptions are grouped under the heading _anomala_. See Martianus Capella, Eyssenhardt, pp. 75–97. Also Sandys, _History of Classical Scholarship_, Index. [171] Solecism is “the failure to put words together according to the correct method”, while barbarism includes blunders in the use of single words. 1, 33, 1. [172] Chiefly a parade of long words, like _perissologia_, _macrologia_, _tapinosis_, _cacosyntheton_, etc. 1, 34. [173] A large number of poetical figures are described. This section is probably nothing but an evidence of conservatism, since Isidore certainly did not include a study of the poets in his scheme of education. [174] A number of metres are described and some attention is given to different kinds of poetry, such as the elegiac, bucolic, hymn, cento, etc. EXTRACTS Chapter 2. On the seven liberal arts.[175] [175] Du Breul has _disciplinis_, not _artibus_.