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PRONOUNCING VOCABULARIES

OF

GREEK, LATIN, AND SCRIPTURE

PROPER NAMES.

RULES

FOR

PRONOUNCING

GREEK AND LATIN PROPER NAMES.

THE words in the following Vocabulary are, for the most part, accented and divided into syllables in the same manner as in Walker's "Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names ;" and the marks which are u in this Dictionary are added to the letters, in order further to assist the pronunciation.

Upwards of one hundred of the words in this Vocabulary are not found in Walker's Key. The pronunciation of most of these is given according to Schelin his Latin and German Lexicon.

A few of the words found in Walker have been corrected. The words Nasi'ca and Ne'mea he erroneously pronounces Nas'ica and Neme'a. The words Alexandria and Heliogabalus are commonly found, in his Initial Vocabulary, with the accent on the penult; but in the Terminational Vocabulary, with the accent on the antepenult; and the latter is evidently the mode which he approves. A number of words, with respect to the pronunciation of which orthoopists differ, are inserted in two forms, though they stand in Walker in only one; as, Clepsydra, Eboracum, Pharnacea, Pharnaces, &c.

There is a class of words ending in ia, such as Alexandria, Echedamia, Samaria, Seleucia, Laodamia, Antiochia, Amphigenia, Iphigenia, Iphidemia, Laomedia, Lasthenia, Protomedia, Protogenia, Deidamia, &c., which classical propriety requires to be pronounced with the accent on the penultimate syllable, though the English analogy strongly favors the antepenultimate accent. To the first five of the words above enumerated, Walker gives the antepenultimate accent; to some he allows both forms; and to others, which are little anglicized by he gives only the classical pronunciation.

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The pronunciation of most of the words in the Vocabulary will be readily

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