Gradus ad Parnassum (Lat., 'a step to Parnassus'), a dictionary of prosody used in making Latin and Greek verse. The best known is the Latin one by John Carey, LL.D. (1756-1826), teacher of the classics and author of school-books, which was published in 1824.
Gradus ad Parnassum
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 339
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