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accent-rhythm accented syllable altogether Amphibrach antepenult běně breath CHAPTER consonant combinations consonantal diē differences of pitch difficulty Dionysius of Halicarnassus diphthong doubled consonant doubt enclitics English words feet final vowel following word four syllables fricative consonants glide glideless Greek hidden quantities ictus initial vowel instance Isolate the long large number last syllable Latin accent Latin Language Latin long Latin short Latin words lengthen long syllable long vowel marked mēnsă metrical metrical feet mihi monosyllables musical mute nasalised nature never Note nounced nouns penult phonetic pitch-accent poetry possible practice preceding vowel probably pronounce correctly pronunciation of Latin prose pure vowel quō reader reading regarded rēs rhythm Roman Rule second syllable secondary sound short syllable short vowel shortening slurring sometimes sonants speech Spondee stress stress-accent syllable length three syllables tongue Trochee unaccented syllables verbs verse voice vowel followed vowel sound heard دو دو دو
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Page 102 - Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae, propterea quod a cultu atque humanitate provinciae longissime absunt, minimeque ad eos mercatores saepe commeant atque ea quae ad effeminandos animos pertinent important, proximique sunt Germanis, qui trans Rhenum incolunt, quibuscum continenter bellum gerunt.
Page 104 - Conticuere omnes intentique ora tenebant. Inde toro pater Aeneas sic orsus ab alto : 'Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem, Troianas ut opes et lamentabile regnum eruerint Danai; quaeque ipse miserrima vidi et quorum pars magna fui.
Page 87 - Musa, mihi causas memora, quo numine laeso, quidve dolens, regina deum tot volvere casus insignem pietate virum, tot adire labores 10 impulerit. Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?
Page 81 - Orion, which gorgeous constellation never burnt more vividly than now, as it soared forth above the rim of the landscape. Castor and Pollux with their quiet shine were almost on the meridian: the barren and gloomy Square of Pegasus was creeping round to the north-west; far away through the plantation Vega sparkled like a lamp suspended amid the leafless...
Page 104 - infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem, Troianas ut opes et lamentabile regnum eruerint Danai, quaeque ipse miserrima vidi, et quorum pars magna fui. quis talia fando Myrmidonum Dolopumve aut duri miles Ulixi temperet a lacrimis ? et iam nox umida caelo praecipitat, suadentque cadentia sidera somnos.
Page 82 - She was dead. Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell, was dead. Her little bird - a poor slight thing the pressure of a finger would have crushed - was stirring nimbly in its cage; and the strong heart of its child-mistress was mute and motionless for ever.
Page 60 - In speech the voice only occasionally dwells on one note, and is constantly moving upwards or downwards from one note to the other, so that the different notes are simply points between which the voice is constantly gliding.
Page iv - Si nimius videor seraque coronide longus esse liber, legito pauca : libellus ero. terque quaterque mihi finitur carmine parvo pagina : fac tibi me quam cupis ipse brevem.
Page 30 - no discontinuity of expiration," " no relaxation of the organs " ; and " no puff of wind or grunt of voice " should intervene between the two parts of a doubled consonant, which should more resemble separate parts of one articulation than two separate articulations.
Page 40 - Romans much disliked the clashing of a final vowel with the initial vowel of the next word.