* Neobule.—Labbe, Ainsworth, Gouldman, Littleton, and Holyoke, give this word the penultimate accent, and therefore I have preferred it to the antepenultimate accent given it by Lempriere; not only from the number of authorities in its favour, but from its being more agreeable to analogy.

+ Neoris.-The authorities are nearly equally balanced between the penultimate and antepenultimate accent; and therefore I may say, as Labbe sometimes does, us volueris; but I am inclined rather to the antepenultimate accent, as more agree able to analogy, though I think the penultimate more agreeable to the car.

Nereus.-Old Nereus to the sea was born of earth

Nereus, who claims the precedence in birth
To their descendants; him old god they call,
Because sincere and affable to all.

COOKE's Hesiod. Theog. v. 357

* Nonacris-Labbe, Ainsworth, Gouldman, and Holyoke, give this word the antepenultimate accent; but Lempriere, Littleton, and the Graduses, place the accent, more agreeably to analogy, on the penultimate.

+ Numicus.

-Our fleet Apollo sends
Where Tuscan Tyber rolls with rapid force,
And where Numicus opes his holy source.-

-DRYDEN.

Nundina.-Lempriere places the accent on the penultimate syllable of this word; but Labbe, Gouldman, and Holyoke, on the antepenultimate. Ainsworth marks it in the same manner among the appellatives, nor can there be any doubt of its propriety.

Oceana-So prone are the English to lay the accent on the penultimate of words of this termination, that we scarcely ever hear the famous Oceana of Harrington pronounced otherwise.

+ Eagrus. This diphthong, like, is pronounced as the single vowel e. If the conjecture concerning the sound of was right, the middle sound between the and e of the ancients must, in all probability, have been the sound of our a in water.-See the word Ea.

* Ogyges. This word is by all our prosodists accented on the first syllable, and consequently it must sound exactly as if written Odd'je-jez; and this, however odd to an English ear, must be complied with.

+ Omphale.—The accentuation which a mere English speaker would give to this word was experienced a few years ago by a pantomime called Hercules and Omphale: when the whole town concurred in placing the accent on the second syllable, till some classical scholars gave a check to this pronunciation by placing the accent on the first. This, however, was far from banishing the former manner, and disturbed the public ear without correcting it. Those, however, who would not wish to be numbered among the vulgar, must take care to avoid the penulti

mate accent.

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