ie gla ee! i 
- fo many poets. 
314 
Greek ‘words of which the quantity is 
afcertained. ‘Thus, for example, in 
Agicag & ex Ooeveu odtom( Iliad vj 62) 
we fee the Greek acute marked over the 
“fir fyllable of Oev0v, which we certainly 
know to be fhort, as well becaufe the 
o-7icroz is naturally fo, as becaufe the 
poet intended tomakea daétyl of ex Opomu: | 
which words,’ by the way, if duly pro- 
nounced as_ a_ legitimate dactyl, ekthrinz, 
are finely expreffive of the fudden ftart 
with which the god {prings afivighted from 
his throne. But, inftead of the Creek acute 
whofe power is now unknown, we hear the 
Exglifh acute applied, which, lengthening 
the fhort fyllable, and perverting forcnu— 
into ¢hraw-now, drags his poor godfhip 
forth with the dull torpid flownefs of an 
overburdened. porter ftruggling under an 
unwieldy load. 
To enumerate the various inftances in 
which the harmony of ancient verfification 
is thus dis-harmonifed by the application of 
modern accent, would be to quote, as I 
have above intimated, at leaft ninety-nine 
hundredths of all the Greek and Latin 
poetry now extant. Such being the cafe, 
IT cannot forbear to think (with all due 
deference, neverthelefs, to thofe who en- 
tertain a different opinion) that, until we 
can refufcitate from the dead fome ancient 
Greek who in his life-time was perfectly 
acquainted with the tones and accents of 
his native language, and who fhall teach us 
the true mode of applying them, our fureft 
guide in pronunciation is the fyllabic guan- 
tity, which we find eftablifhed beyond all 
controverly by the concurrent teftimony of 
And here let me recom- 
mend to the attentive le€ture of every 
youth, who wifhes to relifh the beauties of 
Greek and Latin poetry, the little treatife 
entitled «* Metroz arificn,’’ written by the 
ate Dr. Warner.. If I had the volume 
at hand, I might perhaps quote fome 
pertinent remarks from it: but, that not 
being the cafe, Lrefer the reader to the 
book itfelf, which will amply repay him 
tor the time beftowed on its perulal. 
Bat, to return to the original fubject of 
my controverly with Mr. Dyer, viz. the 
idea of prononncing as fingle: words 
exdaramav, exaderepuc, Tovreayexouvs in- the 
verfes which I quoted from the dnthologia, 
in. page 2099 of your Magaz.ne for lait 
be ) ik ) the 4 
November—pronouncing, . aiter the fame 
mancer, ex€sovcv, in the hemiftich above ad- 
duced from the Iliad, as a fingle word, 
with the (Zngli/>) acute accent on the firft 
fyllable—and, in_ fhort,- obferving the 
fame rule in every fimilarcafe—I am much 
_ Mr. Carey on Greek Pronunciation. 
pleafed to obferve, that, in addition to the 
voice of Mr. Robinfon, I alfo have on my 
fide the authority of fo acute and ingenious 
a critic as Mr. Wakefield. The latter < 
gentleman, in a learned and curious trea- 
tife which he publifhed during the courfe 
of the prefent month, entitled “* Noes 
Carteraria, five de Legibus Metricis Psé- 
tarum Grecorum, qui verfibus Hexametris 
Scripferunt, Difputatio,” has the following 
pafiage, which deferves to be here quoted, 
as ftrongly corroborative of the opinion 
hafarded by me, and contreverted by Mr. 
Dyer. ; 
<< Le&or admonendus eff, in verfus qui legitur 
WW Aa 7 , 
Arperdus Te aval avdpwv, xa Sieg AxtAAEvE® 
woces nas dios pro woce fimplice Graiis antiquis 
habitas, quafi adunate@ legerentur : et in boc ge- 
nus verficulis, I]. B. 34. 270. : 
Aipertw, evr” av ce mEAppwY Devos ayHN" 
Of de, var ayyupevor wep, ex? aura indy 
yedaccay* 
paufam cefuralem fieri ad ce et wep, non aliter 
quam fi junGim feripfiffes, evvavot, apxvupnevormen : 
et fane in multis\non aliud, quam hac confociatit, 
apouciay carminis legentibus defendet : ut Il. Ti. 
$33. Od. ©. 258. et vis paufe magis efficax in 
monofyllabis. Hoc autem, aliunde cognitum, lucu- 
lentiffime evincitur epigrammate avrierpebu, ix 
Anth, Steph. p. 416. 
Kumpids xourcrpapm Supznaw peZavres ednGot, - 
Xatpevres, vuuhasg ex Caraprmy eyopcey : 
nam, nifi pro und voce habeas enbarapwy, poe- 
matis artificium corrempitur, et fefivitas rei 
perit.” eT: 
I am, Sir, yours, &c. 
Clafical Priuting- Office, 
Merlin’s Place, Clerkenwell, 
March 31,.1801. 
} ~, 
ee Sa 
To the Editor of ihe Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N the Provincial Occurrences “of your 
J Number for January, I obferve an ac- 
comat of my fale of fheep at Bromfgrove 5 
and as your Correfpondent. appears to be 
miftaken in his obfervations upon it, Itake = 
the liberty of ftating the following parti- 
culars, that they may net make an undue 
impreflion upon the public.—He intimates 
that there was fome improper management 
by interefted perfons, with a view to kee 
up the nominal value of the breed; but, fo 
far from this being the cafe, there was not ~ 
a hal wae * 
a fingle bidding, or the leaft management - 
whatever, by any of the Leicefterfhire — 
oh 
breeders, very few indeed of whom were — 
prefent, and the fheep were all fairly fold q 
te 
5 
[Mayy, 
J. Carey.» 
