A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names ...

E-VES-PER'I-DES, a people of Africa.
EU-GAN E-1, (3) a people of Italy.
EU-GE'NI-UM, a town of Epirus.

EU-GENI-US, an usurper of the imperial title.
EU'GE-ON, an ancient historian.
EU-HEM E-RUS, see Eremerus.
EU'HY-DRUM, a town of Thessaly.
EU'HY-Us, a surname of Bacchus.
E-VIP'PE, (8) one of the Danaides.
E-VIP PUS, a son of Thestius.
EU-LIM'E-NE, one of the Nereides.
EU-MACH'I-US, (12) an historian of Campania.
EU-ME US, a faithful steward of Ulysses.
EU-ME'DES, a Trojan, son of Dolon.
EU-MELIS, a famous augur.
EU-ME'LUS, a son of Admetus.
EU'ME-LUS, a king of the Cimmerian Bos-
EU ́ME-NES, a Greek officer in Alexander's

phorus.

army.

It is not a little surprising that so elegant a writer as 'ughes should, throughout the whole tragedy of the Siege of Damascus, accent this word on the penultimate syllable; especially as there is not a single proper name of more than two syllables in the Greek or Latin languages, of this termination, which has the penultimate syllable long. Lee has done the same in the tragedy of Alex

ander, which would lead us to suppose there is something naturally repugnant to an English ear in the antepenultimate accentuation of these words, and something

agreeable in the penultimate.

EU-ME'NI-A, a city of Phrygia.
EU-MENI-DES, a name of the Furies.
EU-ME-NID'I-A, festivals in honour of the

Eumenides.

EU-ME'NI-US, a Trojan killed by Camilla.
EU-MOL PE, one of the Nereides.
EU-MOL PI-DE, the priests of Ceres.
EU-MOL PUS, a king of Thrace.

EU-MONI-DES, a Theban.

EU-NE US, a son of Jason.

EU-RO-PE US, a patronymic of Minos.
EU ROPS, a king of Sicyon.
EU-RO'PUS, a king of Macedonia.
EU-RO'TAS, a river of Laconia.
EU-RO TO, a daughter of Danaüs.
EU'RUS, a wind blowing from the east.
EU-RY'A-LE, (8) a queen of the Amazons.
EU-RY'A-LUS, a Peloponnesian chief.
EU-RYB'A-TES, a herald in the Trojan war.
EU-RYB'I-A, the mother of Lucifer.
EU-RY-BI A-DES, a Spartan general.
EU-RYB'I-US, a son of Eurytus.
EU-RY-CLE'A, a beautiful daughter of Ops.
EU'RY-CLES, an orator of Syracuse.
EU-RY-CLI'DES, the father of Eurybiades.
EU-RYC ́RA-TES, a king of Sparta.
EU-RY-CRAT'I-DAS, a son of Anaxander.
EU-RYD'A-MAS, a Trojan interpreter of dreams.
EU-RYD'A-ME, the wife of Leotychides.
EU-RY-DAM'I-DAS, a king of Lacedæmon.
EU-RYD'I-CE, the wife of Orpheus.
EU-RY-GA NI-A, the wife of Edipus.
EU-RY'LE-ON, a king of the Latins.
EU-RYL'O-CHUS, a companion of Ulysses.
EU-RYM A-CHUS, a powerful Theban.
EU-RYM'E-DE, the wife of Glaucus, king of
Ephyra.

EU-RYM E-DON, the father of Peribcea.

EU-NA PI-US, a physician, sophist, and histo- EU-RYM'E-NES, a son of Neleus.

rian of Sardis.

EU-PAL A-MUS, the father of Dædalus.
EU'PA-TOR, a son of Antiochus.
EU-PA-TO'RI-A, a town of Paphlagonia.
EU-PEITHES, a prince of Ithaca.
EU PHA-ES, a king of Messenia.

EU-PHAN'TUS, a poet and historian of Olynthus.
EU-PHEME, the nurse of the Muses.
EU-PHE MUS, a son of Neptune.
EU-PHOR BUS, a son of Panthous.
EU-PHO'RI-ON, a Greek poet of Chalcis.
EU-PHRA NOR, a famous painter of Corinth.
EU-PHRATES, a celebrated river of Mesopo-

tamia.

EUPHRON, a man of Sicyon.

EU-PHROS Y-NE, one of the Graces.

EU-RYN O-ME, one of the Oceanides.
EU-RYN'O-MUS, one of the deities of hell.
EU-RY'O-NE, a daughter of Amyntas.
EU ́RY-PON, a king of Sparta.
EU-RYPY-LE, a daughter of Thespius.
EU-RYPY-LUS, a son of Telephus.
EU-RYS THE-NES, a son of Aristodemus.
EU-RYS-THEN'I-DE, the descendants of Eu-

rysthenes.

EU'RY-TIS, a patronymic of Iole.
EURY-TUS, a son of Mercury.

EU-SE BI-A, an empress, wife to Constantine.
EU'SE-PUS, a twin son of Bucolion.
EU-SE BI-US, a bishop of Cæsarea.

EU-STA THI-US, a Greek commentator on the
works of Homer.

EU-PLE'A, or EU-PLE'A, an island of the EU-STO LI-A, a town of Greece.

Tyrrhene sea.

Euro-LIS, a comic poet of Athens...

EU-TEA, a town of Arcadia.
EU-TEL I-DAS, a statuary of Argos,

EU-TER PE, one of the Muses.

EU-THA LI-A, a festival.

Labbe observes, that this word does not come from the muse Thalia, as some suppose, but from the masculine Euthalius, as Eulatia, Eumenia, Eustolia, Eu

tropia, Emmelia, &c. which are professedly accented on

the antepenultimate.-See Rule 29.
EU-THA LI-US, a bishop of Sulca.
EU-THYC'RA-TES, a sculptor of Sicyon.
EU-THY-DE'MUS, an orator and rhetorician.
EU-THY'MUS, a celebrated boxer of Locris.
EU-TRAP E-LUS, a friend of Marc Antony.
EU-TRO PI-US, a Latin historian.
EU'TY-CHES, an early heretic.

EU-TYCH'I-DE, a mother of thirty children.
EU-TYCH'I-DES, a learned servant of Atticus.
EU-XAN THI-US, a daughter of Minos.
EUX'E-NUS, a fabulous poet of Italy.
EUX-INUS PON'TUS, a sea between Asia and
Europe.

EU-XIPPE, a woman who killed herself.

EX-A'DI-US, one of the Lapithæ.

FA'vo, a Roman mimic.

FA-VO-RINUS, a philosopher under Adrian. FAU'STA, a daughter of Sylla.

FAU-STI NA,(3) wife of the emperor Antoninus. FAU STI-TAS, a goddess among the Romans. FAUSTU-LUS, a shepherd who was directed to have exposed Romulus and Remus, but privately brought them up.

FAUSTUS, an obscure Roman poet.

FEBRU-A, a feast held in the month of February.

FEC-I-A LES, priests at Rome.

FELGI-NAS, a Roman knight killed by Pompey.

FEN-ES-TEL LA, an historian of Rome.

FENNI, the inhabitants of Eningia; now

Finland.

EX-AG'O-NUS, an ambassador from Cyprus to FE-RA'LI-A, a festival in honour of the dead.

EX-E'THES, a Parthian.

EX-OM A-TRÆ, a people of Sarmatia.

Rome.

FA-BULLA, a prostitute.

FER-EN-TI NUM, a town of the Hernici.

FE-REN'TUM, or Fo-REN'TUM, a town of
Apulia.

FE-RE TRI-US, a surname of Jupiter.
FE-RONI-A, a goddess at Rome.
FES-CEN NI-A, a town of Etruria.

FES CU-LE, a town where Sylla settled a colony.

FESTUS, a friend of Domitian.
FI-BRE NUS, a river of Italy.
FI-CUL NE-A, a town of Latium.
FI-DENA, or FI-DENE, a town of Latium.
FI-DE'NA-TES, the inhabitants of Fidena.
FI-DEN'TI-A, a town of Gaul.
FI-DIC U-LE, a place of Italy.
FIDES, the goddess of Faith.
FIM BRI-A, a Roman officer.

FA-CE LI-NA, a place on the north of Sicily, FIR'MI-US, a powerful native of Seleucia.

where Diana had a temple.

FA'DUS, a Rutulian soldier.
FES'U-LE, a town of Etruria.

FAL-CID'I-A (LEX), a Roman law respecting

heirs.

FA-LE RI-A, a town of Picenum.
FA-LE'RI-I, (4) a town of Etruria.
FAL-E-RI'NA, a tribe at Rome.

FA-LER NUS, a mountain and plain of Campania.

FA-LIS'CI, (3) a people of Etruria.
FA-LIS CUS, see Gratius.

FA'MA, a powerful goddess of the ancients.
FAN NI-A, a woman of Minturnæ.

FAN NI-I, (4) two Roman orators.

FAN NI-US, an inferior Roman poet.

FAR FA-RUS, a river of the Sabines.

FAS CE-LIS, a surname of Diana.

FAS-CEL LI-NA, a town of Sicily.

FIS-CELLUS, a part of the Apennine moun

tains.

FLO-REN TI-A, a town of Italy.

FAU-CU LA, a woman who privately sent food FLO-RI-A NUS, a man who was emperor at

to the Roman prisoners at Capua.

Rome for only two months. FLO'RUS, a Latin historian. FLU-O'NI-A, a surname of Juno. FO'LI-A, a woman of Ariminum. FON-TE'I-A, (5) a vestal virgin.

FON-TE'I-US CAP'I-TO, a friend of Horace.

FOR MI-E, a town of Campania.
FOR-MI-A NUM, a villa of Cicero.
FOR NAX, a goddess at Rome.

GAL-AC-TOPH A-GI, (3) a people of Scythia. GA-LE'SUS, see Galesus.

GA-LAN THIS, a servant maid of Alcmena. GAL ́A-TA, (7) a town of Syria.

FOR-TU NA, a powerful deity, the goddess of GALA-TE, the inhabitants of Galatia.

Fortune.

FOR U-LI, a town of the Sabines.
FORUM AP PI-1, a town of Latium.
FRANCI, (3) a people of Germany.
FRE-GELLA, (7) a town of the Volsci.
FRE-GENE, a town of Etruria.
FREN-TA'NI, (3) a people of Italy.
FRIG'I-DUS, a river of Tuscany.
FRIS 1-1, (4) a people of Germany.
FRONTI-NUS, a celebrated geometrician.
FRONTO, a preceptor of M. Antoninus.
FRU SI-NO, a small town of the Volsci.
FU-CINUS, a lake of Italy>
FU-FID I-US, a wretched usurer.

Fu FI-US GEMI-NUS, a protegé of Livia.
FU-GALI-A, festivals at Rome.
FUL-GI-NA TES, a people of Umbria.
FUL-GINUS, an officer of Cæsar.
FULLI-NUM, and FUL-GINUM, a small town

of Umbria.

Fus'cus, a Roman prætor.

GAL-A-TE'A, and GAL-A-THE'A, a sea-nymph.
GA-LA'TI-A, (10) a country of Asia Minor.
GA-LAX'I-A, a festival.

GAL BA, a surname of the first of the Sulpicii.
GA-LE NUS, a celebrated physician.
GA-LE O-LE, prophets in Sicily.
GA-LE RI-A, a Roman tribe.
GA-LE RI-US, a Roman emperor.
GA-LE'SUS, a river of Calabria.

GAL-I-LEA, a celebrated country of Syria.
GA-LIN-THI-A DI-A, a festival at Thebes.
GALLI, (3) the people of Gaul.

GALLI-A, (GAUL, Eng.) a large country of

Europe; now France.

GAL-LI-CA NUS, a mountain of Campania.
GAL-LI-E'NUS, a Roman emperor.
GAL-LI-NA RI-A, a wood near Cumæ.
GAL-LIP'O-LIS, a town on the Ionian sea.
GAL-LO-GRE CI-A, the same as Galatia.
GAL-LO NI-US, a Roman knight.
GALLUS, one of Otho's generals.

GA-MAX US, an Indian prince, who revolted against Alexander.

GA-ME LI-A, a surname of Juno.
GAN-DA-RI'TÆ, an Indian nation.

GAN GA-MA, a place near the Palus Mæotis.
GAN-GAR'I-DE, a people who dwelt near the

Ganges.

GAN'GES, a large river of India.
GAN-NAS CUS, an ally of Rome.
GAN-Y-ME'DE, the same as Hebe.

GAN-Y-ME'DES, (GAN ́Y-MEDE, Eng.) a beautiful youth of Phrygia.

GA-RE TI-CUM, a town of Africa.

GAR-A-MAN TES, a people of Africa.

FU'SI-A (LEX), (11) a Roman law touching GAR-A-MANTIS, the mother of several sons by

public assemblies.

Jupiter.

GARA-MAS, a king of Libya.

GAR'A-TAS, a river of Arcadia.

GA-RE A-TE, a people of Arcadia.
GA-RE-ATHY-RA, a town of Cappadocia.
GAR-GA NUS, a lofty mountain of Apulia;
now St. Angelo.

And high Garganus, on th' Apulian plain,
Is mark'd by sailors from the distant main.
Wilkie, Epigoniad.
[Virg. Æn. xi. 247, Victor Gargani, &c.-Edit.]
GAR-GA PHI-A, a valley near Platea.
GARGA-RA, (7) see Gargarus.
GAR GA-RIS, a king of the Curetes.
GAR GET-TUS, a village of Attica.
GAR GA-RUS, a town of Troas.
GA-RIL'I-US, an historian.

GAR-GIT′ti-us, a dog which kept Geryon's

flocks.

GAR-ITES, a people of Gaul.

GA-RUM N NA, a river of Gaul; now Garonne.
GAS TRON, a general of Lacedæmon.
GATHE-E, (4) a town of Arcadia.
GA-THE A-TAS, a river of Arcadia.
GAU-GAM-E ́LA, a village near Arbela.

GAU'LUS, OF GAU'LE-ON, an island in the Me- GILLO, an infamous character in the age of

diterranean.

GE'LO-1, (3) the inhabitants of Gela.
GEL'O-NES, OF GE-LO'NI, a people of Scythia.
GE'LOS, a port of Caria.

GE-MINI-US, a friend of M. Antony.
GEM'I-NUS, an astronomer of Rhodes.
GE-NA BUM, a town of Gaul.
GE-NAU NI, a people of Vindelicia.

GE-NEVA, an ancient city of the Allobroges.
GE-NI'SUS, a man of Cyzicus.

GE'NI-US, a spirit or demon.
GEN'SE-RIC, a famous Vandal prince.
GEN TI-US, (10) a king of Illyricum.
GENU-A, a celebrated town of Liguria; now

Genoa.

Virgil.

GE-PHY'RA, a city of the Seleucidæ in Syria.
GE-PHYR'E-I, (3) a people of Phoenicia.
GE-RASTUS, a port of Euboea.

Juvenal.

GIN-DA NES, a people of Libya.
GIN'DES, a river of Albania.
GIN'GE, see Gigis.

GIN-GU'NUM, a mountain of Umbria.

GIP PI-US, a Roman, who connived at his wife's adulteries.

GIS'co, a Carthaginian general.

GLA-DI-A-TO'RI-I LUDI, (4) combats at Rome.
GLA NUM, a town of Provence; now St. Remi.
GLA'NIS, a river of Cumæ.
GLAPHY-RE, and GLAPH'Y-RA, a daughter of

Archelaus.

GLAUCE, the wife of Actæus.
GLAPHY-RUS, an infamous person.

GLAUCIA, a surname of the Servilian family.
GLAU-CIPPE, one of the Danaides.
GLAU-CIPPUS, a Greek writer.
GLAU CON, an Athenian writer.
GLAU-CON O-ME, one of the Nereides.
GLAU-CO ́PIS, a surname of Minerva.

GLAUCUS, an officer in the Trojan war.
GLAU TI-AS, a king of Illyricumi.
GLICON, a physician of Pansa.
GLIS'SAS, a town of Boeotia.

GLYC'E-RA, a beautiful woman mentioned by
Horace.

GLY-CE RI-UM, the mistress of Praxiteles.
GLY CON, a man remarkable for his great
strength.

GLYM PES, a town on the borders of Messenia.
GNATI-A, (13) (10) a town of Apulia.

GNIDUS, see Cnidus.
GNOS'SI-A, (10) or GNOS'sis, a

Ariadne.

nanie of

GNOS'sus, a famous city of Crete.
GOB-A-NIT 1-0, (10) a chief of the Averni.
GO BAR, a governor of Mesopotamia.

GE-RA NI-A, a mountain between Megara and GOB'A-RES, a Persian governor.

Corinth.

GE-RAN THRE, a town of Laconia.

GE-RESTI-CUS, a harbour of Teios.

GER GI-THUM, (9) a town near Cumæ.
GER-GO BI-A, a town of Gaul.

GERI-ON, an ancient augur.

GOB'RY-AS, a nobleman of Persia.
GOL'GI, a place of Cyprus.

GOM PHI, a town of Thessaly.
GO-NATAS, one of the Antigoni.

GO-NIA-DES, nymphs of the river Cytherus.>
GO-NIP PUS, a youth of Andania.

GER-MA'NI-A (GERMA-NY, Eng.), a country GON'NI, a town of Thessaly.

of Europe.

GER-MAN I-CUs, one of the Cæsars.

GER-MA'NI-I, (4) a people of Persia.
GE-RON THRÆ, a town of Laconia.
GER'RHE, a people of Scythia.

GERUS and GER RHUS, a river of Scythia.
GERY-ON, (9) and GE-RY O-NES, a monster,

who is said to have had three bodies and three heads.

GES SA-TE, a people of Gaul.

GES-SO-RI'A-CUM, a town of Gaul; now
Boulogne.

GES'SOs, a river of Ionia.

GETA, (9) a rebel in Nero's reign.

GETE,

a people of Scythia.

GE-TU LI-A, See Gætulia.

GO-NES'SA, a town of Troas.
GO-NUS'SA, a town of Sicyon.

GOR-DI-A NUS, a celebrated consul of Rome,
and governor of Africa.

GOR DI-UM, a town of Phrygia.
GOR DI-US, a king of Phrygia.
GOR-GA'SUS, a man who received divine

honours at Pheræ.

GORGE, a daughter of Eneus, king of
Calydon.

GOR GI-AS, a Sicilian sophist and orator.
GOR GO, the wife of Leonidas.
GOR GO-NES, three sisters, named Stheno,
Euryale, and Medusa, who had serpents instead of hair.
GOR-GO NI-A, a surname of Pallas.
Terra.GOR-GO'NI-US, a man named by Horace.
GOR-GOPH'O-NE, a daughter of Perseus.
GOR-GOPH ́O-RA, a surname of Minerva.
GOR GUS, a son of Aristomenes.

GI-GAN TES, giants, sons of Coelus and
GI-GAR TUM, a town of Phoenicia.
GIGIS, a female attendant of Parysatis.
GILDO, a governor of Africa."

GOR-GYTH'I-ON, a son of Priam.

GOR TU-E, a people of Euboea.

GOR TYN, GOR TYS, or GOR-TY NA, a town of HA'BIS, a king of Spain.

Crete.

HA-DRI-A-NOPO-LIS, a town of Thrace.
HA-DRI-A NUS, (23) a Roman emperor.
HA-DRI-AT I-CUM, see Adriaticum.
HA MON, à Theban youth.
HE-MONI-A, See Emonia.

and Thessaly.

HAMUS, a mountain which separates Thrace
Eu-HA'GES, a brother of king Porus.
HAG NO, a fountain of Arcadia.

GRECI-A MAGNA, a part of Italy.
GRÆ-CINUS, a senator whom Caligula put

to death.

HAG-NAG'O-RA, a sister of Aristomenes.
HA-LA'SUS, and HA-LE'SUS, a son of Agamem-

non.

HALA-LA, a village at the foot of Mount

Taurus.

HAL-CY O-NE, (8) see Alcyone.

GRA'I-US, an inhabitant of Greece.
GRA-NICUS, or GRAN'I-CUS, а river of HA-LEN'TUM, a town of Sicily.

Bithynia.

As Alexander's passing the river Granicus is a common subject of history, poetry, and painting, it is not wonderful that the common ear should have given into a pronunciation of this word more agreeable to English analogy than the true classical accent on the penultimate syllable. The accent on the first syllable is now so fixed, as to make the other pronunciation savour of pedantry. That is, if correct speaking is pedantry.

Edit.-See Andronicus.

GRA NI-US, an officer of Cæsar.

GRA'TI-Æ,
(10) three goddesses.
GRA-TI-A NUS, (21) a Roman emperor.
GRA-TIDI-A, the same as Canidia.

GRA TI-ON, (11) a giant killed by Diana.
GRA TI-US, (10) a Latin poet.
GRAVI-1, (4) a people of Spain.
GRA-VIS CE, a town of Etruria.
GRA VI-US, a Roman knight.

GRE-GO'RI-US, (GREG'O-RY, Eng.) a bishop of

Neocæsarea,

GRIN NES, a people of Batavia. GROS PHUS, a friend of Horace. GRYLLUS, a son of Xenophon. GRY-NEUM, a town of Clazomenæ. GRY-NE'US, one of the Centaurs.

GRY-NIUM, the same as Gryneum.

HALI-A, one of the Nereides.
HA-LI-AC'MON, (21) a river of Thessaly.
HA-LI-AR'TUS, (21) a town of Boeotia.
HAL-I-CAR-NAS'SUS, a maritime city of Caria.
HA-LICY-E, (11) (24) a town of Sicily.
HA-LI E-IS, a town of Argolis.
HA-LIM E-DE, a Nereid.

HAL-IR-RHO'TI-US, (10) a son of Neptune.
HAL-I-THER'SUS, a fortune-teller.
HA'LI-US, (20) a son of Alcinous.
HAL-I-ZO'NES, (21) a people of Paphlagonia.
HAL'MUS, a son of Sisyphus.
HAL-MY-DES'SUs, a town of Thrace.
HA-LOC RA-TES, a son of Hercules.
HA-LONE, an island of Propontis.
HAL-ON-NE'SUS, an island on the coast of
Macedonia.

HA-LO'TI-A, (10) a festival in Tegea.

HA-LO TUS, an eunuch who poisoned the food

of Claudius.

HALUS, a city of Achaia.

HAL-Y-ETUS, a man changed into a bird.

GY'A-RUS, and GY'A-ROS, an island in the HAL-Y-AT'TES, see Alyattes.

HA-MAXI-A, a city of Cilicia.

HA-MILCAR, a celebrated general of Carthage.

HAN NI-BAL, see Annibal.
HAM M
MON, the Jupiter of the Africans.

HAR CA-LO, a man who knew all the properties of poisonous herbs.

HAR-MA-TEL
ELI-A, a town in India.
HAR MA-TRIS, a town of Ætolia.
HA-MIL'LUS, an infamous debauchee.
HAR-MO DI-Us, the friend of Aristogiton.
HAR-MO'NI-A, a daughter of Mars and Venus.
HAR-MON'I-DES, a Trojan loved by Minerva.
HAR PA-GUS, a general of Cyrus.
HAR-PALI-CE, see Harpalyce.
HAR-PA LI-ON, a son of Pylamenes.

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