• Eumenes.—It is not a little surprising that so elegant a writer as Hughes should, throughout the whole tragedy of the Siege of Damascus, accent this word on the penultimate syllable; especially as there is not a single proper name of more than two syllables in the Greek or Latin languages of this termination which has the penultimate syllable long-Lee has done the same in the tragedy of Alexander, which would lead us to suppose there is something naturally repugnant to an English ear in the antepenultimate accentuation of these words, and something agreeable in the penultimate.

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*Euthalia-Labbe observes that this word does not come from the muse Thalia, as some suppose, but from the masculine Euthalius, as Eulatia, Eumenia, Eustolia, Eutropia, Emmelia, &c. which are professedly accented on the antepeultimate.-See Rule 29.

* Granicus.-As Alexander's passing the river Granicus is a common subject of history, poetry, and painting, it is not wonderful that the common ear should have given into a pronunciation of this word more agreeable to English analogy than the true classical accent on the penultimate syllable. The accent on the first syllable is now so fixed, as to make the other pronunciation gavour of pedantry. See Andronicus.