A study of the neuter plural in Vergil made by Dr. John F. Gummere showed that there is an excess of nominative, accusative, and vocative plurals over the corresponding case-forms in the singular, as compared with the situation in masculine and feminine nouns; and that the frequency of nominative, accusative, vocative plural of neuters reaches its height in nouns of those classes whose nominative, accusative, vocative plural form is of greatest metrical convenience. In a further examination of dactylic verse Dr. Margaret W. Herr states that a study of plurals in the Metamorphoses has given the same results for Ovid that Dr. Gummere's study gave for Vergil.