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

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Nam ut Color oculorum indicio, Sapor palati, odor narium dinoscitur, ita Sonu aurium arbitrio Subjectu eSt. P1TCII.

But besides the tength of the syllabie, and the place and qualit of the CCent, an Other matter Claim attention. In Englisti ai that is require is to know the place of the accent, hicli is simpl distinguished by greater tres of voiCe This peculiarit o ou language mahes it more dissiculi or us than for the peopte to et the Latin CCent, whicli is ne of pitCh. In Latin the acute accent means that o the syllabi thus accented o ratSe the pitch the grave indicate merelyth lowerrione the circumflex that the voice Sirst alsed, then depressed, o the Same Syllabie. To quot again thepaSSage ro Priscian

Keil. v. III. p. 10. ACUtu namque accentus ideo inventus est

quod acuat sive elevet syllabam gravi vero eo quod deprimat aut deponet circumflexus ideo quod deprimat et acuat.

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Aul. Gell. VI. xv. AmiCUS noster, homo multi studii atque in bonarum disciplinarum opere frequens, verbum quiesci usitate littera correpta dixit. Alter item amicus homo in doctrinis, quaSi in praeStigiiS, mirisICUS, Communiumque OCum reSpuen nimi et fastidiens, barbare eum dixiSSe opinatu est; quoniam producere debuiSSet, non Corripere. Nam quaeScit ita oportere dici praedicavit ut calescis, ni escis, turescis, atque alia hujuscemodi multa. Id etiam addebat, quod quies e producto, non breVi, diceretur.

NOSter autem, qua Si omnium rerum verecunda mediΟCritate, ne

si Aelii quidem Cincii et Santrae dicendum ita censuiSSentibSe-Cuturum SeSe fuiSSe ait, Contra perpetuam Latinae linguae ConSuetudinem. Neque Se tam inSignite locuturum, absona aut inaudita ut diceret Litteras autem Super hac re fecit, item inter haec exercitia quaedam ludicra et quiesco non SSe his Simile quae Supra POSVi, ne a quiere dictum, Sed ab eo quietem Graecaeque

verbum illud habere demonstravit Rationibusque haud sane irigidis docuitimesco e littera longa dici non conVenire.

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Aul. Geli. IX. i. Ab eo, quod St ago et egi, verba sunt quae appellant grammatici frequentativa, actito et actitavi. Haec quosdam non sane indocto viro audio ita pronuntiare ut primam in his litteram corripiant rationemque dicant, quoniam in verbo principali, quod St ago, prima littera breviter pronuntiatur. Cur igitur ab eo quod est eae et ungo, in quibus verbis prima littera breviter dicitur, esito et unc iro, quae Sunt eorum frequentativa prima littera longa promimus et Contra dictito, ab eo verbo quod est dico, correpte dicimus Num ergo potius actito et acritavi producenda sunt quoniam frequentativa ferme omnia eodem modo in prima syllaba dicuntur, quo participia praeteriti temporis ex iis verbis unde ea profecta Sunt in eadem Syllaba pronuntiantur Sicut Igo, lecIuS, lectito facit ungo, unctus, unctito; Scribo, cristus, Scriptito; Iones, monituS, monito I senisse, sen-SuS, EItSito eis, SuS, Siro dico, autem, dictus, dictito facit; goro, LESIuS,LES ito veho, vectuS, vectito rasio, rastus, stito;

casio, castus, castito; facio, factus, iactito. Sic igitur actito producte in prima Syllaba pronuntiandum, quoniam X eo fit quod

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the Street o Rome an Flore rice nunciat thei vowel in

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in the followin directionS Firs of ali a particular attention to the Vowel oundS, to make them fuit an distinct taking the Italia modet, is you know Italian, an alway ob Servin Stricti the quantity.

arus in Italia fatio, irrus initia a in aha or ac in ast notas in fat). a secon e in Italia ferile or a in fete no late or S

in Vein.

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Aluch time is astedi student and badiabit are acquiredi not incling, at the uiset, the right pelling of each wordan hold in to t. his ach student musti for himself, Consuli in a good dictionary, a editor an edition Mare notalway to e depende on. Here it is the diphthong that present the hie dissiculi an Cal for the greates Care. In pronouncin diphthongs ound both voweis, ut glides rapidi from the firs to the secondis to offer to the earbut a single ound In the publication of the Cambridge Eng. Philologica Societ on Pronunciation o Latin in the Augusta Period, ' the followin directions are iven The pronunciatio of these diphthongs, of hicli the

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Nex in importance, and in New Englandis least, irs in dissiculty is the trilling of the r. There an bem approXimation to a Satisfactor pronunciation o Latin unii this ris acquirect but the satisfactio in the result hen accom

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Remember that the final syllabi in m when no elided, is to e prono incedis lightly an rapidly a possibie, themore lightly an indistincti the eiter.

as in hali l

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initia an final, as inmine. mediat, as in damnabie, always more dental than in Englisti. beiore , , , , a in OnCord, anger, Sinher, relinquiSh, anxious, the longue notriouch in the oo of the mouth. before norm nasal tengthening the precedin voWel, as in

more re Semble Separate part of one articulation than wo Separate arti CulationS. Duplication o Consonant is Con Sequently regarded Sinapi a the energeti ulterance of a Single On Sonant. V

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lightly uia on to the following ord, as in Italian. Buti the vowe was the Same the effect was that os a single

In respect os elisiones ould ni say that by Compar- in Plautus illi Ovid, ema se ho much the elaborate cultivation of the angvage ad tende to a more distinctsoundin os final syllabies and that but for Virgil' powe fui influenc the elision o long owels ould have almost CeaSed Clearly e mustio altogether passive the elidedVowel o Syllabi in m excepi perhaps in the Case of in

run lighil on to the following owellas in Italian, and ouChlightly an obscuret the final syllabi in m. The o oris of