Volume 1

The Roman antiquities of Dionysius Halicarnassensis / translated into English; with notes and dissertations. By Edward Spelman.

  • Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Date:
1758
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Credit: The Roman antiquities of Dionysius Halicarnassensis / translated into English; with notes and dissertations. By Edward Spelman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and from interrupting that harmony of fyle, which they were defgned to promote ? *The other argument is this: 16 Arijiotle fays that iam¬ bic verfe is the very language of the vulgar; for which reafon, they made ufe of iambics more than of any other verfes in talking; 0 Se iuy£oQ ocvtyi env n \t%ic r\ twi> wo7- TlCov* (ho y,oihi<?ot. noivjwv rwv pilgM tot^Suot (p&eyfoi]oii teyov]se¬ lf iambics were the language of the vulgar, the language of the vulgar mufl be pronounced like iambics: Bui the patrons of accents allow that iambics mufl be pronounced, according to the quantity; therefore the language of the vulgar mufl be pronounced according to the quantity. I have not the leaf fufpicion of any argument, that can be oppofed to this y though I a?n fenfble that prejudices are great logicians, and will find cavils, where reafons are want¬ ing ; and here indolence comes to their affiance; a?id both mafter, and fcholar are concerned in adhering to the old method of readmg Greek according to the accentsFor a boy may be taught to read that language tolerably well ac¬ cording to the accents in a very few months^ when as ma?iy years will be necejfary to enable him to read it accordmg to the quantity; which is a knowledge the mafter himfelf wiufi be well acquamted with, unlefs he has a mind the fay- 16 PqlogiK, Book iii. chap. 8. Vol. Ip e ing