226 Aitsti)i Morris Harmon, 



In the usage of the poets suesco not infrequently is trisyllabic, 

 suadeo occasionally.^ It is not surprising, then, that Ammianus should 

 make use of this pronunciation, but very surprising that he should 

 use it always. 



At once the most wide-spread and the most striking phenomenon 

 of this nature is that u may count as a syllable in the combination 

 qu-. Though the following list of instances is long, it is by no 

 means exhaustive. The words cited are classified for the sake of 

 convenience into three groups according as qu heads a post-tonic 

 tonic or pre-tonic syllable. 



Dialysis in post-tonic syllable 



aquis undabundis I. 127. 1 



aquae furtim I. 177. 13 



aquis et externis I. 280. 4 



equis et morigeris I. 134. 15 



equis concidit I. 318. 11 



equi terrebantur II. 32. 5 



eqiios aut aurigas II. 145. 15 



eqiiis velocissimis II. 201. 8 



eqiiis evolarunt II. 244. 2 



antiquum timens I. 242. 27 



antiquam sobolem I. 279. 16 



antiqiia sed deserta I. 303. 2 



longinqiia pertimescens I. 64. 18 



longinqiia formidabat I. 236. 7 



aeqiium nee laudari II. 57. 9 



aequum nee sileri II. 180. 3^ 



propinquo convectari II. 185. 13 



oblique tenebantur I. 218. 31 



sequens Lunae I. 295. 29 (cf. I. 71. 18; 79.6) 

 (enclitic -que) 



legibusqiie discrepantes I. 72.7; cf. 86.9; 168.9; II. 236.2; 

 245. 28 ; 256. 22 ; 268. 26 ^ 



uterque etc. I. 75. 26; 230. 8 ; 252. 17; II. 15. 17; 17. 2 



quisque I. 286. 7 ; II. 4. 30 



plerique I. 28. 13; 36. 17; 331. 13; II. \'6. ,32 



usque I. 286. 4 ; II . 110. 16 ^_ 



* With, reference to suadet see also Serv. ad Aen. I. 857 secundum 

 nattiram dtiae sunt syllabae^ sed multi trisyllabnm putant. Cf. Lindsay, p. 53. 



* This justifies aeqiium nee taeeri I. 207. 11, where aequum is inserted 

 by Gelenius. 



' Only a few instances out of many score are here cited. 



