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*Atrebates.-Ainsworth accents this word on the antepenultimate syllable; but Lempriere, Gouldman, Holyoke, and Labbe, on the penultimate; and this is, în my opinion, the better pronunciation.

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✦ Bellerus. All our lexicographers unite in giving this word the antepenultithate accent: but Milton seems to have sanctioned the penultimate, as much more agreeable to English ears, in his Lycidas

Or whether thou to our moist vows deny'd
Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old.

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Bel-lo-ve'sus

Blan-de-no'na

Bib'li-a, and Bil'li-a | Blæ'sus
Bib'lis

Beʼlon

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Blan-du'si-a

Blas-to-pho-ni'ces
Blem'my-es
Ble-ni'na
Blit'i-us (10)
Blu'ci-um (10)
Bo-a-dic'e-a

Bo'æ, and Bo'c-a
Bo-a'gri-us
Bo-ca❜li-as
Boc' car
Boc'cho-ris

Boc' chus

Bo-du'ni
Bo-du-ag-na'tus
Bo-be'is
Bo'bi-a

Bo-e-dro'mi-a

Be-ro'sus

Bi-san' the

Bo-o-tar'cha

Ber-rho'a

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Though it must be acknowledged that Milton has in this word deserted the classical pronunciation, yet his authority is sufficient to make us acquiesce in his accentuation in the above-mentioned passage.

+ Bianor-Lempriere accents this word on the first syllable: but Labbe, Ainsworth, Gouldman, and Holyoke, on the second; and these agree with Virgil, Ecl. ix. v. 60.

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* Britones.-Labbe tells us, that this word is sometimes pronounced with the penultimate accent, but more frequently with the antepenultimate.

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