210 Austin Morris Harmon, 



The most interesting observation of this nature in that in hoc 

 modo the accent falls upon the noun, whereas in Jmiusniodi and 

 various other compounds of the sort the noun is enclitic. 



hoc modo : I. 162. 25 paulatim hoc modo ; II. 85. 10 prudens hoc 

 modo; 176. 16 inscdens hoc modo; 1.328. 24 autem hoc modo 

 huiusmodi : I. 13.14 cogitabat hiiinsmodi ; 33. 1 huinsmodi scru- 

 tahaiiir: 313. 15 huinsmodi forma est; cf. I. 148. 10; 236. 13; 

 II. 178. 30 

 uniusmodi : II. 205. 26 uniusmodi pcrfcrentcs 

 -modo- I. 248. 5 qiioqnomodo corrigcudnm; 305. 19 qnodammodo 

 spirant; II. 49. 6 tantummodo tcncbatnr; 96. 31 tantununodo 

 vulneratis 

 -modum. : I. 28. 2 admoduni pattca ; II. 20. 26 propcmodnm in- 

 acccsso 

 Word-accent in Ammianus conforms almost entirely to the classi- 

 cal usage ; there are, however, a few noteworthy points which 

 must be enumerated. 



Penultimate vowels followed by a mute and a liquid do not take 

 the accent unless they are long by nature. Thus we have magnae 

 delubra (I. 285. 18), visitur ant dcliibrum (II. 237. 11), and longius 

 circnmldtrans^ (I. 305. 16), but — 



tenel:)ras : I. 84. 2 tenebras adfulsisse ; II. 222. 1 1 tenebris amcn- 



dasset; 172. 7 tenebris reptabamus 

 latebris: II. 119. 16 latebris amendarunt; 197. 11. /. oportunis 

 inlecebris: I. 288. 1 rapicbatur inl; II. 14. 24; 123. 31 ; 271. 20 

 integrum: I. 51. 11 absolvitur integris; 118. 26; 198. 29; II. 



175.4 

 muliebri : I. 1 66. 24 muliebri sexu 

 lugubres : II. 171.22 higubres inchidebat 

 The results coincide again with the testimony of the gramma- 

 rians, which is opposed, however, to that of the Romance languages. 

 Lindsay is apparently right in assuming that in vulgar speech a 

 .short penult followed by a mute and a liquid took the accent, 

 while in educated speech it did not do so.- 



The only case in Ammianus of a verb which has shifted con- 

 jugation is oriri (II. 234. 11 oritur potest; I. 16. 19 adoritur Pauhim; 

 335.22 inde exoritur; cf 208.21; II. 192.15). This phenomenon, 

 however, is not confined to late writers.^ 



1 On the quantity of the a in latmns see Marx, Hiilfsbiichlein^ s. v. 



* Lindsay, p. 164. 



* Neue, Formenl. III. 253. 



