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848* ADVERTISEM 



owing to their different opinions of its derivation ; and Father Lahhe 



t i. A K.° th K r ( ? ifficult >''. ^hich occur'd to us, was in the words of four 

 fyllables begmnmg w.th a daftyle, as Leucoium, anthericum, apoct 



r m f'n a M r ° f r e ' &C - ** u «r4M*> words, having ,he twid- 

 dle fyllables ftort, are by the latin poets frequently placed at the end 

 of the.r pentameter verfes, and are call'd Choreambics, as 



Dantur opes nulli nunc nifi divitibus. Mart. 



and are then always difagreeable in modern pronunciation, becaufe we 

 place the accent or emphafis in fpeaking them upon the anteZuTt 

 wh,ch the verfe reqmres ftould be laid upon the firft and upoTthelaft 

 fyllable But when words of this kind are found in the middle parts 

 of a verfe we pronounce them right, by laying the accent or emphafis 

 on the firft and laft fyllables, and then the line becomes agreeabfe to 

 the ear ; as 5 lu 



Et viaoris opes, divitiafque dei. Ma rU 



mh U ^tl fr ° m , hence that our mod ™ way of pronouncing all thefe 

 words by laying the accent on the antepenult is erroneous, °and that 

 the emphafis ought to be placed on the firft and laft fyllables as Leu- 

 comrn, Anthencum, ^g.phila, &c. But as this error of pronunciation 

 is fo umverfally adopted, and the original pronunciation, /when he 

 words are not combed in a verfe,; i! fo uncouth to a £„ 

 wehavedetermm'dto accent them on the antepenult, as they are 

 generally pronounced, as Leucoium, Angelica, Cacali'a; thoMn all 

 thefe words the accent ey.dently militates with the quantity. 



If any errors fhould be deteaed befides thofe above mention'd in 

 the corngenda and errata ; the reader is intreated to aferibe fomethin^ 

 to the general difficulty of the undertaking; in which almoft a new 

 language was to be formed , and to the f rea t labour of obtain^ 

 typography accuracy ,„ a work, where neither the general fenfe" 



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