The Roman pronunciation of Latin; why we use it and how to use it

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BOSTON UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARI S

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PROFESSOR O LATIN IN ELLESLE COLI

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tion ' o Latin is twofoles the impossibilit os perfecttheo retical nowledge, and the dissiculi os practica attain-

But is it is true that therias of practica acquisition is, is no impossibie, extremel dissiculi, the work of a lifetime,' a the objeCtor say, do the resulis justis the expenditureo time an labor The positio of the English-speaking eopte i no the

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Augustan eriod. In the present Compendium the hie potnisi divergenCesrom the genera America understanding of the Roman 'methodore in respect of the diphthon a and the Consonanta u. In the Se CaSe the pronun Ciation here in reCommende for the ae is that favored by Roby, unro, and

Ellis, an adopte by the Cambridge hilologica Society;

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I generat, the reater par of ou knowledge of the pronunciation o Latin Come froni the Latin graminarians, whos authorit Varie greatly in aliae or through incidental statement an expression of the Classi Coriters themselVes o from monumenta inscriptions. O thesethree, the res is inferior to the the two in quality, ut the in turn re ComparatiVel me agre in quantity. In the res place, e no mos important pieCe iknowledge that, a a Ule Latin a pron OunCed a Written. This is evident froni the faCt, among therS that the SameeXCeption reCur, an are mentione OVer and Ver again, in the grammarians, and that o much S ad of Comparatively, and Confessedly, inSignificant Oinis. Such, e maybe Sure, ould not have been the Case ad exception been numeroUS. The we have the authorit o Quintiliam than whom is no igher. e spe alis of the subiteties of

the grammarian : Quint. I. v. 6. Interiora velut sacri hujus adeuntibus apparebit multa rerum subtilitas, quae non modo acuere ingenia puerilia sed exercere altisSimam quoque eruditionem a Scientiam OSSit.

Id. b. iv. . An cujuslibet auris est exigere litterarum sonoSy

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2 THE ROMA PRONUNC TYON OF LAT . But alter Citin some of thosesidio syncrastes hicli appearon the page of at the grammarians, he finali sums p thematte in the followin significant ords:

Id. ib. vii 3o, 31. IndiCium autem Suum grammaticus interponat

his omnibus ; nam hoc valere plurimum debet. Ego note the Do)nisi quod consuetudo obtinuerit sic scribendum quidque judico, quomodo Sonat. Hic enim est uSu litterarum, ut custodiant VoceSet velut depositum reddant legentibus, itaque id exprimere debent quod dicturi SumUS.

Roma pronun Ciation.