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In the pronunciationis Latin the observance of quantityand of pitch are the wo mos dissiculi potnts of attainment; and the are the cruciat est of good reading. The observarice of quantityci nocies important in prosethan in verse. A litile reflection ill convince the uilest min that the Romans di no pronoun Cein or one Way in pro Se an another in Verse that we have no in poetry and pro Se two language S. Cicero an Quintilia both njoin adue admixture o long an Shor syllabies in proferas ella VerS and any one ho akes delight in re adin Latinwill eartit agree illi roses Sor tinro hen e Say For mySelf, by observin quantity I Seem to fee more keenly the beaut o Cicero' style an LiVy'S, as et asVirgil's an Horace 'S. Therefore tanti onerie eis at home illi the quantities, lethim observe the rule o beatin time in reading, to malaesur that the long syllabies et wice the time of the hortones. In his a he wil Soon have the pronunciation feach wor Correcti fixe in milid, and wil noti oblige tothin of his quantities in verse more than in pro Se A longste has been alien in the enjoymen o Latin poetry henthe reade cloes no have to e thinking of the feet.'Voun Student particulari Should e specialty arefulin the final syllabie of the verse. Since, o far a the QRS- Ure i Concerned there is no dissereno there etween theton and the hor syllabie, the reade is apirio be Carelessas to the tength of the syllabie iself, an to mali ali final Syllabies long even to the mispronoun Cing of the word, theret, both akin a false quantity and therwiSe injuring the effect of the verse, by importita into it a monotonyfore igno the original Does no Cicero im self say that
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sonant i another seriou fauit, a Wel a the SlOVeni pronunciatio of two ConSonanis, here the reade fatis to giveth time necessar to spea each distinctly mahin false quantit an mispronunciatio a the Same time. In generat, it two Symbol are ritten e re to infer that two ound were intended. The ni exception to this is in the case of a fe word Where the pellin Varie S, S
double Consonant asini designe to indicate tength. An Other, apparent, XCeption i in the Case of a mute fol-lowed by a liquid ; ut the mute an liquid re regularly
tion. For example it ould appea that the vowe of the Supine an Cognate paris of the ver is long f the vowe of the present indicative though shori, is followed by a mediat b, g, d, ), a actus, lenus, rom a , IE .
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The question o accent present litile dissiculi a to place, but Some a to quality, and much a to kind. As o quality, it musti remembere that while the acute accent is found n syllabies ither hortis long by natureor position), an on ither the penult o the antepenuit, the circumflex is found orat o long oweis, and in ordSos more than one syllablehoni o the penuit, and then onlyin Case the ultima is hori. Thus, spes, ut dux Imrct, ut Lmdo excitus, ut exciti. In these examples the tength fili syllabi is the Same and of Course remain the Same in inflection, ut the qualit of the accent Changes. In theone case the voice is both rai sed an depresse on the Same syllabie, in the ther i is ni raised As Professor Ellis put it I the las syllabie ut ne is long it is spolienwith a raised pitch, hicli is maintaine throughout ii iis Vowe is hori, SQ Batos, Orci thecias syllabi is long as j mdeo ut inlis immediatet ii iis own Vowe is long anda the sanie time the vowe of the las Syllabi is hori, as
But hen e come to the question of the indis accent, We Ome Pon the OS Serious matte practicali in the pronunciation o Latin and this ecause of a dissiculty
peculiar to the Englisti spe ahing eoples. The English
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56 THE ROMA PRONUM ATTO OF LAT N. No ne ill isagree illi Professor Ellis hen assumes, ' in his Quantitative ronunciation o Latin that the Augusta Romanilia no fore accent, that is that theydi not, as e do distinguisti ne syllabi in very ordinvariabbi pronouri Cincit illi greater orce, that is, illi greater oudness, than the thers, ut that the force varie daccordin to the feeling of the moment, or the beat of the timekeepe in singing, and waS Sed for Urpo Ses of X- pression justis With us, musica pitClicis free, that is, just
pitches for it disserent syllabies, an in fac are oblige tovary the musica pitCh in interrogations and repties. The fixit o musica pitch an free domo degrees of force in Latin and the reedom o musical pitch and fixit os degreeso force in Englisti harpi distinguisti the wo pronunciations even irrespective o quantity. VBut his pitch accent, hil alien to us, is no impossibleo acquisition anxit is essentia to any ad equa te renderingo an Latin writer, hether of pro Se or verse. Nor illitie alta inmentae a ork of indefinite time ii ne urgues
one pitCh also, ut bout a musica fifth lower than theother, asci the alter ere sun to the lowest note of the fourth string of a violin, and the forme were undito thelowest note of it thir string. In the foregoin pages an essor has been made to bring together Compacti an to et forti Concisely the natur of
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ior adopting, and the simple Si mean o acquiriniit. Noattempi ha been made at a philosophica or exhaustive treatinent of the subjeci; ut at the fame time it is hopediliat nothin unphilosophica has rept in or anythin been omitted whicli might have been given to rende the Subjectintelligibi an enabi the intelligent reade to understanditi potnis andie able to give a re ason formaChi Sage herein
The main objec in te in preparing this litile book hasbeen to hel the ea her of Latin in the SeCondar SChool S, to furnisti them Somethin notrio VoluminouS, et a SatiS- factor a the natur of themaSe allows, poma subject whichthe present diversit os opinion and practice has rendere d
language, is dissiculi, parti be cause he has seldom eard prose et re ad though e is Constanti hearin prosearound him, intonated, ut unrhythmicat. In the Case of ad ea language, like the Latin, hicli the pupi neverae ars Spoken, an Seldom ear read excepi by himself or his equali ignorant an hobbi in fellow-scholars, his dissicultyis inordinatet increased Let me on Ce more impreS Onever te acher of Latin the ubi himself earning to read Latin readit accordinito accent an quantity the of his re ad in o ut o his pupiis, of his Settin them a saturn, of his earing that the follo it of his Correcting theirmistahes of his ea in them into right abiis. I thequantitative pronunciation e adopted, o ne ill e sitio beCome a classica te acheroli Canno rea a Simple Latin Sentence decently With a trici observance of that
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are made to imitate oo oon the acquire an errone US