I don't know. Latinists tend to badly exaggerate how methodical and consistent Latin grammar is (five declensions, my ass, e.g.) and I have only the barest of acquaintances with this fact. It was mentioned in Latin 2 as something we would be dealing with in Latin 3, but I graduated after Latin 2. Also, it comes up again in the Renaissance, where certain famous poets decided to apply the rules – or what they thought the rules were, which may not be the same thing – to French poetry. And then musicians decided to run with it and set the poetry by following the same rules: long syllables get two beats, short syllables get one beat, and we're in whatever time signature that works out to at any given moment. This should not have worked, but generated some surprisingly lilting and rhythmically pleasant music.
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Date: 2019-02-04 12:46 am (UTC)ETA: Some links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosody_%28Latin%29
http://people.virginia.edu/~jdk3t/epicintrog/scansion.htm