188 Austin Morris Harmon, 



QUANTITY UNDER ACCENT. 



In Latin words quantity under accent is not as free to vary as 

 it is in Greek. As a result of the penultimate law an accented 

 penult in any word of more than two syllables is bound to be long. 

 Only monosyllables, dissyllables and antepenultimate w^ords can have 

 a short accented syllable. Consequently it is only in these words 

 that our author's disregard for quantity under accent can show 

 itself, and in these words it does show itself unequivocally. For 

 an investigation of the ratio in which short syllables stand to long 

 in monosyllables under clausula-accent, in dissyllables and in ante- 

 penultimate words has disclosed that in each case this ratio is 

 normal. 



The monosyllables may be quickly disposed of. Under clausula- 

 accent they occur only as the first word in I (i, and 5 in 25 are 

 short. So much variation within a single type can only mean 

 neglect of quantity, and since monosyllables nearly always end in 

 a consonant and must therefore make position frequently, there is 

 no reason for believing the ratio of variation to be anything but 

 normal.^ 



Dissyllal^les and antepenultimate words are found in all forms. 

 The following tables show the proportion of short accented syl- 

 lables that they display in each place in which they occur. 



long short total "/q short 



penult penult 



I (first word) 155 38 193 20 



(last word) 248 87 335 26 



II f first word) 29 8 37 22 

 (last accented word, 



followed by an enclitic) 2 2 



III (first word) 33 8 41 20 

 (last word) 2 2 



IV (first word) 112 



470 142 612 23 



* It is confirmed by the fact that in III y d the monos3'llable within 

 the clausula is short 6 times in 43, in III if 6 6 times in 36. In lycf and 

 Ilytf, however Ammianus takes care to make the monosyllable long by 

 position : see below. 



