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* Eumenes. It is not a little surprising that so elegant a writer as Hughes 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 Alexander, 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.

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Fa-bi-a'ni (3)

Fau' la

Fi-de' na

Fa'bi-i (4)

Fau' na

Fa' bi-us

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Fi-de' næ

Fi-den' ti-a
Fi' des

Fi-dic' u-læ
Fim' bri-a

Fir' mi-us
Fis-cel' lus
Fla-cel'li-a
Flac' cus

Fla-cil' la E'li-a

Fla-min' i-a

Fla-min' i-us, or

Flam-i-ni' nus

Fla' vi-a

Fla-vi-a' num

Fla-vin' i-a

Fla-vi-ob' ri-ga
Fla' vi-us

Flo'ra
Flo-ra' li-a

Flo' rus

Euthalia.-Labbe observes, that this word does not come from the muse Thalia, as some suppose, but from the masculine Euthalius, as Eulatia, Eumenia, Eustolia, Eutropia, Emmelia, &c. which are professedly accented on the antepenultimate.-See Rule 29.

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Gal-lo-græci-a

Gal-lo'ni-us

Gal'lus

Ga-max' us Ga-me'li-a Gan-da-ri' tæ Gan' ga-ma

Gan-gar'i-dæ

Gan' ges
Gan-nas' cus

Gan-y-me' de
Gan-y-me' des
Gan' y-mede (Eng.)

Ga-ræ'i-cum

Gar-a-man' tes
Gar-a-man' tis
Gar' a-mas
Gar'a-tas
Ga-re' a-tæ
Ga-re-ath' y-ra

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* Garganus.—And high Garganus, on the Apulian plain,

Is mark'd by sailors from the distant main.

WILKIE, Epigoniad.

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Gy'a-rus, and
Gy' a-ros

Gy' as
Gy-gæ us
Gy' ge

Gy'ges (9), or
Gy' es

Gy-lip' pus

Gym-na' si-a (11)

Gym-na' si-um (11)

Gym-ne' si-æ (11)
Gym'ne-tes

Gym-nos-o-phis' tæ

Jim-nos' o-phists

(Eng.) (9)

Gy-na' ce-as
Gyn-a-co-tho' nas

Gyn' des
Gy-the' um

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* Granicus.-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. See Andronicus.

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