* Hegemon.-Gouldman and Holyoke accent this word on the antepenultima » syllable, but Labbe and Lempriere more classically on the penultimate.

+ Heliogabalus.-This word is accented on the penultimate syllable by Labbe and Lempriere; but in my opinion more agreeably to the general ear by Ains worth, Gouldman, and Holyoke, on the antepenultimate.

Hep-tap'o-lis

Her-me'as

He' zhe-od(Eng.)(10

Hep-tap'y-los

Her-me'i-as

He'ra (7)

Her' mes
Her-me-si'a-nax
Her-mi'as

Her-min'i-us

Her-mi'o-ne

Her-mi-o'ni-æ

Her-mi-on'i-cus Si'

nus

Her-mip' pus
Her-moc'ra-tes
Her-mo-do'rus

Her-mog'e-nes

He-si'o-ne

Hes-pe'ri-a
Hes-per'i-des
Hes'pe-ris
Hes-per'i-tis
Hes' pe-rus

Hes'ti-a
Hes-ti-æ'a (7)
He'sus

He-sych'i-a

He-sych'i-us
He-tric'u-lum
He-tru' ri-a
Heu-rip' pa
Hex-ap'y-lum
Hi-ber'ni-a, and.
Hy-ber'ni-a

Her-cu'le-um

Her'ni-ci (4)

Her-cu'le-us

He'ro

Hi-bril'des

Hic-e-ta'on (24)

His-e-ta' on

Her-cyn'i-a

He-ro-di-a' nus (21) Hi-ce'tas

* Heraclitus.-This name of the weeping philosopher is so frequently contrasted with that of Democritus, the laughing philosopher, that we are apt to pronounce both with the same accent; but all our prosodists are uniform in giving the antepenultimate accent to the latter, and the penultimate to the former word

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Hippocrene. Nothing can be better established than the pronunciation of this word in four syllables according to its original; and yet such is the licence of English poets, that they not unfrequently contract it to three. Thus COOKE, Hesiod. Theog. v. 9.

And now to Hippocrene resort the fair;

Or Olmius, to thy sacred spring repair.

And a late translator of the Satires of Persius;-

Never did I so much as sip,

Or wet with Hippocrene a lip.

This contraction is inexcusable, as it tends to embarrass pronunciation, and lower the language of poetry.

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* Hybreas.-Lempiere accents this word on the penultimate syllable; but

Labbe, Gouldman, and Holyoke, more properly, on the antepenultimate.

+ Idea. This word, as a proper name, I find in no lexicographer but Lempriere.

The English appellative, signifying an image in the mind, has uniformly the accent on the second syllable, as in the Greek ez, in opposition to the Latin, which we generally follow in other cases, and which, in this word, has the penultimate short, in Ainsworth, Labbe, and our best prosodists; and, according to this analogy, idea ought to have the accent on the first syllable, and that syllable short, as the first of idiot. But when this word is a proper name, as the daughter of Dardanus, I should suppose it ought to fall into the general analogy of pronouncing Greek names, not by accent, but by quantity; and therefore, that it ought to have the accent on the first syllable; and, according to our own analogy, that syllable ought to be short, unless the penultimate in the Greek is a diphthong, and then, according to general usage, it ought to have the accent.

Idomeneus.-The termination of nouns in eus was, among the ancients, some. times pronounced in two syllables, and sometimes, as a diphthong, in one.

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Thus Labbe