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TUR PI-O, see Ambivius.

TU-RUL LI-US, one of Cæsar's murderers.
TUS-CA'NI-A, and TUSCI-A, (10) a large

country of Europe, called also Etruria,

Tus'ci, (3) the inhabitants of Etruria.
TUS-CU-LA'NUM, a country-house of Cicero.
TUS CU-LUM, a town of Latium.
Tus'cus, a name of the Tiber.
TU ́TA, a queen of Illyricum.
TU'TI-A, (10) a vestal virgin.
TUTI-CUM, a town of the Hirpini.
TY'A-NA, a town of Cappadocia.
TY-A'NE-US, or TY-A-NE'US, a name of Apol-

lonius.

This word is only used as an adjective to Apollonius, the celebrated Pythagorean philosopher, and is formed from the town of Tyana, where he was born. The natural formation of this adjective would undoubtedly be Tyaneus, with the accent on the antepenultimate syllable. Labbe, at the word Tyana, says, "et inde deductum Tyaneus; quidquid sciam reclamare nonnullos, sed immerito, ut satis norunt eruditi."-The numberless authorities which might be brought for pronouncing this word either way, sufficiently shew how equivocal is its accent, and of how little importance it is to which we give the preference. My private opinion coincides with Labbe; but as we generally find it written with the diphthong, we may presume the penultimate accent has prevailed, and that it is the safest to follow. [Unques tionably.-Edit.]

TY-A-NITIS, a province of Asia Minor.
TY BRIS, a Trojan warrior.

TY BUR, a town of Latium.
TY'CHE, (12) one of the Oceanides.
TYCH'I-US, (12) a celebrated artist of Boeotia.
TYCH'I-CUS, (12) a Roman freedman.
TY'DE, a town of Hispania.
TYD'E-US, a prince of Calydon.

This word, like several others of the same termi

nation, was pronounced by the Greeks sometimes in
three, and sometimes in two syllables, the eu considered
as a diphthong. When it was pronounced in three syl-
lables, the penultimate syllable was long, and the accent
was on it, as we find it in a verse of Wilkie's Epigoniad:
Venus, still partial to the Theban arms,
Tydeus' son seduc'd by female charms.
But the most prevailing pronunciation was that with
the antepenultimate accent, as we generally find it in
Pope's Homer:

Next came Idomeneus and Tydeus' son,
Ajax the less, and Ajax Telamon.

See Idomeneus.

Pope's Hom. b. ii. v. 50.

TY-DI'DES, a patronymic of Diomedes.

TY'Los, a town of Peloponnesus.

TYM'BER, a son of Daunus.

TY-MOLUS, a mountain.
TYM-PA'NI-A, a town of Elis.
TYM-PHA'I, (3) a people of Epirus.
TYN-DAR'I-DES, a patronymic of the children

of Tindarus.

TYN'DA-RIS, a patronymic of Helen.
TYN'DA-RUS, a king of Lacedæmon.
TYN NI-CHUS, a general of Heraclea.

TY-PHE US, or TY'PHON, a famous giant with one hundred heads.

TY-RAN NI-ON, a grammarian of Pontus.
TY-RAN'NUS, a son of Pterelaus.
TYRAS, or TY'RA, a river of Sarmatia.
TY'RES, a companion of Æneas.
TYR-I-DATES, a rich man of Alexander's age.
TYR'I-1, (4) a town of Magna Græcia.
TY-RIO-TES, an eunuch of Darius.
TY'RO, a beautiful nymph of Elis.

TY'ROS, an island of Arabia.

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VAC CA, a town of Numidia.
VAC-CA'I, (3) a people of Spain.
VA-CU'NA, a goddess at Rome.
VA'GA, a town of Africa.
VAG-E-DRU'SA, a river of Sicily.
VA-GEL'LI-US, an obscene lawyer of Mutina.
VA-GENI, (3) a people of Liguria.
VALA, a friend of Horace.

VALENS, a son of Gratian, and brother to
Valentinian.

VA-LEN'TI-A, (10) an ancient name of Rome. VA-LEN-TIN-I-A NUS, (VA-LEN-TIN'I-AN, Eng.) a son of Gratian, raised to the throne by his valour and merit.

VA-LERI-A, a sister of Publicola.
VA-LE-RI-A NUS, (VA-LE'RI-AN, Eng.) a Ro-

man emperor.

VA-LE RI-US, a Roman consul.
VALE-RUS, a friend of Turnus.
VALGI-US, a Roman poet.

VAN-DA'LI-I, (3) (4) a people of Germany.
VAN-GIO-NES, a nation of Germany.
VANNI-US, a king of the Suevi.

VA-RA NES, a name common to some of the

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U-CAL'E-GON, a Trojan chief.
U'CU-BIS, a town of Spain.
VEC TI-US, (10) a rhetorician.

VE DI-US POL LI-0, a friend of Augustus.
VE-GE'TI-US, (10) a Latin writer.
VE'I-A, a sorceress.

VE-I-A'NUS, a gladiator.

VE-I-EN TES, the inhabitants of Veii.

VE-I-ENTO, a satirical and arrogant Roman.

VEI-1, (3) a powerful city of Etruria.

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VE-LINA, part of the city of Rome.

VER RI-TUS, a general of the Frisii.
VER'RI-US, a grammarian.
VER-RUGO, a town of the Volsci.

I have given this word the penultimate accent with Lempriere, in opposition to Ainsworth, who adopts the antepenultimate.

VER TI-CO, one of the Nervii.

VE-LINUM, a lake in the country of the VER-TI-COR'DI-A, a surname of Venus.

Sabines.

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VE-NA FRUM, a town of Campania.

Though the accent may be placed either on the antepenultimate or the penultimate syllable of this word, the latter is by far the preferable, as it is adopted by Lempriere, Labbe, Gouldman, and other good authorities. (Mart. Epig. xiii. 101. 1. Bacca Venafri. So Hos. Od. ii. 6. 16.-Edit.]

VEN'E-DI, a people of Germany.
VENE-LI, a people of Gallia.
VENE-TI, (3) a people of Italy.

VE-NETI-A, (10) (VEN'ICE, Eng.) a part of

Gaul.

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VEN'TI, (3) the winds.
VEN-U-LEI-US, a Roman writer.
VEN-U'LUS, one of the Latin elders.

VENUS, one of the most celebrated deities of
the ancients; the goddess of beauty, and the mother of

love.

VE-NU'SI-A, or VE-NU'SI-UM, (10) a town of
VE-RA GRI, a people between the Alps and the

Apulia.

Allobroges.

VE-RA NI-A, the wife of Piso Licianus.
VE-RA'NI-US, a governor of Britain.
VER-BIG E-NUS, a village in the country of
the Celta.

VER-CEL LE, a town where Marius defeated

the Cimbri.

VER-CIN-GET'O-RIX, a chief of the Gauls.
VER-GILI-A, the wife of Coriolanus.
VER-GAS-I-LAU'NUS, a friend of Vercin-

getorix.

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VER-TIS CUS, one of the Rhemi.

VER-TUM NUS, a deity among the Romans,
who presided over the spring and over orchards.
VER-U-LA NUS, a lieutenant under Corbulo.
VERUS, a Roman emperor.

VES BI-US, or VE-SU BI-US, see Vesuvius.
VES-CI-A NUM, a country house of Cicero, in
Campania.

VES-PA-SI-A NUS, (VES-PA'SI-AN, Eng.) a
Roman emperor famed for his virtues.
VES-CU-LA RI-US, a Roman kuight.
VES E-RIS, a river near Mount Vesuvius.
VE-SE'VI-US and VE-SE'VUS, see Vesuvius.
VES'TA, the goddess of fire.

VES-TA LES, priestesses consecrated to the

service of Vesta.

VES-TA'LI-A, festivals in honour of Vesta.
VES-TIC I-US, (24) an officer under Otho.
VES-TIL I-US, a Roman prætor.
VES-TIL LA, a noble matron.
VES-TINI, (3) a people of Italy.
VES-TINUS, a Roman knight.
VES'U-LUS, a mountain of Liguria.
VE-SU'VI-US, a volcano of Campania, near

Naples.

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VE-TU RI-A, one of the Roman tribes.
VE-TU ́RI-US, a Roman artist.
VE'TUS, a Roman, under Nero.
U'FENS, a river of Italy.

U-FEN-TI NA, a Roman tribe.

VI-A DRUS, the classical name of the order.
VI-BIDI-A, a vestal virgin.

VI-BID'I-Us, a friend of Mæcenas.
VIB'I-US, a proconsul of Spain.
VIBO, a town of Lucania.

VIE-U-LE NUS, a Roman knight.
VI-BULLI-US, a friend of Pompey.
VICA PO'TA, the goddess of victory at Rome.
VI-CEN TI-A, or VI-CE'TI-A, a town of Gaul.
VI-CELLI-US, a friend of Galba.
also VICTOR, a writer in the age of Constantius.
VIC-TORI-A, a Roman deity.
VIC-TO'RI-US, a man of Aquitain.
VIC-TO-RINA, a celebrated Roman matron.
VIC-TO-RINUS, a Christian writer.
VIC-TUM'VI-A, a town of Insubria.

VER-GIN I-US, an officer of Rome.
VER GI-UM, a town of Spain.
VER-GO-BRETUS, a chief of the Ædui.
VERI-TAS, Truth, made a deity by the

ancients.

VER-O-DOC'TI-Us, (10) one of the Helvetii.
VER-O-MAN ́DU-I, a people of Gaul.
VE-RONA, a town of Venetia.
VE-RO ́NES, a people of Hispania.
VER-RE-GINUM, a town of the Volsci.
VER RES, (C.) a Roman prætor.

VI-EN'NA, a town of Gallia on the Rhone.
VILLI-A (LEX), a Roman law.

VILLI-US, a tribune of the people.

VIM-I-NA LIS, one of the seven hills on which
Rome was built.

VIN-CEN TI-US, (10) one of the Christian

fathers.

VIN'CI-US, a Roman knight.

VIN-DA LI-US, a writer on agriculture.
VIN-DELI-CI, a people of Germany.
VIN-DE-MI-A TOR, a constellation.
VINDEX JU'LI-Us, a governor of Germany.
VIN-DIC'I-US, (10) a Roman slave.
VIN-DO-NIS SA, a town of the Helvetii.
VI-NIC ́I-US, (10) a Roman consul.
VI-NID I-US, a miser mentioned by Horace.
VIN'I-US, a commander in the prætorian

guards.

VIN'NI-US, a servant of Horace.
VIP-SA'NI-A, a daughter of Agrippa.
VIR BI-US, a name of Hippolytus.
VIR-GIL'I-US, (VIR'GIL, Eng.) the prince of

the Latin poets.

VIR-GINIA, a Roman maiden, seized by Appius Claudius for a slave; and killed by her father,

to prevent the violence of the tyrant.

VIR-GIN I-US, a centurion, father of Virginia.
VIR-I-A THUS, a shepherd of Lusitania.
VIR-I-DOM A-RUS, a powerful man of the Ædui.
VI-RIP LA-CA, a goddess of the Romans.
VIRRO, a name used by Juvenal.
VIRTUS, all the Virtues, they were made

deities by the Romans.

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VOL-SIN'I-UM, a town of Etruria.
VOL-TIN'I-A, a Roman tribe.

VO-LUM'NE FA'NUM, a temple in Etruria.
VO-LUM NI-A, the wife of Coriolanus.
VO-LUM'NA and Vo-LUM'NUS, two deities,
worshipped in Etruria.

VO-LUM'NI-US, a friend of Lucullus.

VO-LUP'TAS, a goddess of pleasure at Rome.
VOL-U-SE'NUS, a military tribune.
Vo-LU-SI-A NUS, a son of Gallus.
VO-LU'SI-Us, a poet of Patavia.
VOL'U-SUS, a friend of Turnus.
Vo'LUX, a son of Bocchus.
VO-MA NUS, a river of Italy.
Vo-NO'NES, a king of Parthia.
VO-PIS CUS, a Syracusan writer.
VO-RA'NUS, a freedman of Q. L. Catullus.
VO-TI-E NUS, (22) a learned man, banished

by Tiberius.

U'PIS, the father of Diana.
U-RA'NI-A, one of the muses.
U-RANI, or U'RI-I, a people of Gaul.
U'RA-NUS, the same as Coelus.
UR-BIC'U-A, a town of Hispania.
UR'BI-CUS, an actor at Rome.
U'RI-A, a town of Calabria.
U'RI-TES, a people of Italy.
UR-SID'I-US, an adulterer.
US-CA'NA, a town of Macedonia.

U-SIPE-TES, or U-SIP'II, (3) a people of
Germany.

Us TI-CAS, a town on the coast of Sicily.
U'TI-CA, a celebrated city of Africa.

VI-TRU VI-US, an architect in the age of VUL-CA-NA LI-A, festivals in honour Augustus.

VIT'U-LA, a deity among the Romans.

UL-PI-A NUS, a Roman lawyer.

U'LU-BRE, a town of Latium.

Vulcan.

VUL-CA'NI, a name of the Lipari isles.

VUL-CA NI-US, a Latin historian.

of

VUL-CA NUS, (VULCAN, Eng.) a god who presided over fire, and workers in metals.

U-LYS'SES, a king of Ithaca, the husband of VUL-CA'TI-US, a Roman knight.

Penelope, and the father of Telemachus.

UMBER, a lake of Umbria.

UM BRA, a portico of Pompey at Rome.

UM BRI-A, a country of Italy.

UM-BRIG'I-US, (24) a soothsayer.

UM'BRO, a river of Italy.

UN CA, a surname of Minerva.
UN'CHE, a town of Mesopotamia.
UN-DE-CEM'VI-RI, (3) magistrates of Athens.
U-NEL'LI, (3) a people of Cotantin in Gaul.
UNX'I-A, a surname of Juno.
Vo-co'NI-A (LEX,) a Roman law.

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XANTHO, an attendant nymph of Cyrene.
XAN THUS, a river of Troas.

XANTI-CLES, a leader of the Greeks.
XAN-TIP PE, the wife of Socrates, renowned

for her ill-humour and peevish disposition.
XAN-TIP PUS, a Lacedæmonian general.
XE-NAG O-RAS, a philosopher who measured
the height of Mount Olympus.
XE-NAR CHUS, a comic poet.

ZA'THES, a river of Armenia.

ZE-BINA, an impostor who usurped the
throne of Syria.

ZELA, or ZE'LI-A, a town of Pontus.
ZE'LES, a town of Spain.

ZE-LOT Y-PE, the goddess of envy.
ZE LUS, a daughter of Pallas.

ZENO, a philosopher of Elia, or Velia, the
disciple of Parmenides.

XENA-LES, a friend of Cleomenes, king of ZE-NO BI-A, a queen of Iberia.

Sparta.

XE'NE-TUS, a rich Locrian.

XE'NE-US, a Chian writer.

ZE-NO BI-I, small islands at the mouth of the Arabian gulf.

ZEN-O-DO RUS, a Roman sculptor.

XE-NIA-DES, a Corinthian, of whose children ZEN-O-DO'TI-A, a town of Mesopotamia.

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Euripides.

XE-NOC RA-TES, an ancient philosopher, born

at Chalcedonia, and the friend of Plato. XE-NOD'A-MUS, an illegitimate son of Mene

laus.

XE-NOD'I-CE, a daughter of Syleus.

ZE-NOD'O-TUS, a native of Troezene, who wrote a history of Umbria.

All our prosodists but Lempriere give this word the antepenultimate accent; and till a good reason is given why it should differ from Herodotus, I must beg

to follow the majority.

ZE-NOTH E-MIS, a Greek writer.
ZE-PHYR I-UM, a promontory of MagnaGræcia.
ZEPHY-RUS, one of the winds.
ZEPH-Y-RUM, a promontory in the island of
Cyprus.

XE-NOD'O-CHUS, a Messenian, crowned at the ZE-RYN THUS, a town of Samothrace.

Olympic games.

XE-NOD'O-TES, an epithet of Bacchus.
XE-NOPH'A-NES, a Greek philosopher of

lophon.

ZE THES, OF ZE Tus, a prince of Thrace.
ZEUG MA, a town of Mesopotamia.
Co-ZE'US, a name of Jupiter.

XE-NOPH'I-LUS, a Pythagorean philosopher.
XENO-PHON, an Athenian general, philoso-

pher, and historian.

XERXES, (17) a king of Persia.

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ZEUX-ID'A-MUS, a king of Sparta.
ZEUX'I-DAS, a prætor of the Achæan league.
ZEUX-IPPE, a daughter of Eridanus.
ZEUX'IS, a celebrated painter of Heraclea.
ZEU'XO, one of the Oceanides.

ZIL'I-A, or ZELIS, a town in Mauritania.

XY CHUS, a Macedonian who reproved king ZI-MA'RA, a town of Armenia.

Philip.

XYN'I-AS, a lake of Thessaly.

XYN-O-ICH'I-A, an anniversary in honour of
Minerva, at Athens.

Z.

ZA-BA'TUS, (19) (27) a river of Media.
ZAB-DI-CENE, a province of Persia.
ZA-BIR NA, a town of Libya.

ZI-OB'E-RIS, a river of Hyrcania.
ZI-PETES, a king of Bithynia.
ZITHA, a town of Mesopotamia.
Zo'I-LUS, (29) a sophist and grammarian of
Amphipolis.

The two vowels in this word are always separated in the Greek and Latin, but in the English pronunciation of it they are frequently blended into a diphthong, as in the words oil, boil, &c. This, however, is an illiterate pronunciation, and should be avoided. The word should have three syllables, and be pronounced as if written Zo'e-lus.

ZO-IP PUS, a son-in-law of Hiero of Sicily.
ZONA, a town of Africa.

ZA-CYNTHUS, a Boeotian, who accompanied ZONA-RAS, a Byzantine historian.

Hercules into Spain.

ZA-GRE US, a son of Jupiter.

ZA GRUS, a mountain between Media and
Babylonia.

ZALA-TES, (19) an Armenian youth.

ZO-PYR 1-0, one of Alexander's officers.
Zo-PYRI-ON, a governor of Pontus.
ZOP'Y-RUS, a son of Megabyzus.
ZO-RO-AS'TER, a king of Bactria; he was a
lawgiver and philosopher.

ZA-LEU'CUS, a lawgiver of the Locrians in Zos I-MUS, an officer in the reign of Theo

Italy.

ZAMA, or ZAG MA, a town of Numidia.

ZA ME-IS, a king of Assyria.

dosius.

Zos'I-NE, the wife of king Tigranes.
ZOS-TE RI-A, a surname af Minerva.

ZA-MOL-XIS, a slave and disciple of Pytha- ZO-THRAUS TES, a lawgiver among the Ari

goras.

ZAN CLE, a town of Sicily.

ZA RAX, a town of Peloponnesus.
ZAR-BI-E NUS, a petty monarch of Asia.
ZAR-I-AS PES, a Persian under Alexander.

maspi,

ZY-GAN TES, a people of Africa.
ZYG'I-A, a surname of Juno.
ZY-GOP O-LIS, a town of Cappadocia.
ZY-GRITÆ, a nation of Libya.

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*** By inspecting the foregoing Vocabulary, we see that, notwithstanding all the barriers with which the learned have guarded the accentuation of the dead languages, still some words there are, which despise their laws, and boldly adopt the analogy of English pronunciation. It is true the catalogue of these is not very numerous; for, as an error of this kind incurs the penalty of being thought illiterate and vulgar, it is no wonder that a pedantic adherence to Greek and Latin should, in doubtful cases, be generally preferred.

But as the letters of the dead languages have insensibly changed their sound by passing into the living ones, so it is impossible to preserve the accent from sliding sometimes into the analogies of our own tongue; and when once words of this kind are fixed in the public ear, it is not only a useless, but a pernicious, pedantry to disturb them. Who could hear without pity, of Alexander's passing the river Grani'cus, or of his marrying the sister of Parys'atis? These words, and several others, must be looked upon as planets shot from their original spheres, and moving round another centre.

After all the care, therefore, that has been taken to accent words according to the best authorities, some have been found so differently inarked by different prosodists, as to make it no easy matter to know to which we shall give the preference. In this case I have ventured to give my opinion without presuming to decide, and merely as an 'Hvwræòv, or Interim, till the learned have pronounced the final sentence.*

It will have appeared, that the Editor has not deemed it necessary to follow, in all cases, the opinion of the Author.

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