* Thessalonica.-This word, like every other of a similar termination, is sure to be pronounced by a mere English scholar with the accent on the third syllable; but this must be avoided on pain of literary excommunication.

+ Thon, a physician of Egypt. Milton spells this word with the final e, making

H

making it one syllable only, and consequently pronouncing it so as to rhyme

with tone:

Not that Nepenthe, which the wife of Thone,

In Egypt, gave to Jove-born Helena,

Is of such pow'r to stir up joy as this--

Comus.

Troilus. This word is almost always heard as if it were two syllables only, and as if written Troy'lus. This is a corruption of the first magnitude: the vowels should be kept separate, as if written Tro'e-lus.-See Zoilus.

+ Tyaneus.-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 immeritò, ut satis norunt eruditi.”

The numberless authorities which might be brought for pronouncing this word either way sufficiently show 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.

Tydeus.-This word, like several others of the same termination, 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 syllables, 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.

POPE'S Hom. b. ii. v. 50.

See Idomeneus.