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and afliing the other to read fome ancient Greek, I found ihdt 

 they both uniformly pronounced according to accent, without any 

 attention to long or fhort fyllables where accent came in tlie way ; 

 and on their departure, one of them having bade me good day, by 

 faying KuX'tifis^a, to which I anfwtred KxX'^f^.e^x, he with ftrong 

 marks of reprobation fet me right, and repeated KoiXvi^i^x -y and 

 with like cenfure did the captain upon another occafion obferve 

 upon my faying Socrates iqflead of Socra'.es. 



I NOW felt a vehement wifh to knov/ whether they made the 

 diflindtion in this refpe(3: ufually made between verfe and profe, 

 but from the little fcholarlliip of the two men with whom I had 

 converfed, from the ignorance of a third whom I afterwards met, 

 (who however read Lucian with eafe, though he did not fcem ever 

 to have heard of the book,) and on account of my imperfedt mode 

 of converfing with them all, I had little hopes of fatisfadion on 

 the point, nor was I clear that they perfedly knew the difference 

 between verfe and profe. 



At length having met with the commander of the Ihip, and 

 his clerk Athanafius Kovo}^?, and finding that the latter had been 

 a fchoolmafter in the Morea, and had here learnt to fpeak English 

 fluently, I put the queftion to them in the prefence of a very 

 learned College friend, and at -another time, to avoid any error, 



with 



