Orberg explains that a syllable ending in a consonant is long...yet all guidelines I've read on the internet say a syllable ending in a double consonant is long..
He then provides an example...?
pmda wrote:Sī semper fallis,‖ iam rogo Galla, negā!
Now he marks the 'is' in fallis long. Is this because of the break in the text indicated by him (and me) with two vertical lines? Because according to his guidelines the 'is' should be short because the 'consonant at the end of the word is linked with the vowel (or h) at the beginning of the next? So why is the 'is' in 'fallis' long in this case. The guidelines would seem to indicate that this should be short?
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