* Lasthenia.—All the prosodists I have consulted, except Ainsworth, accent this word on the penultimate syllable; and though English analogy would prefer the accent on the antepenultimate, we must necessarily yield to such a decided superiority of votes for the penultimate in a word so little anglicised by se.-See Iphigenia.

* Leonatus.-In the accentuation of this word I have followed Labbe and Lempriere: the former of whom says-Quanquam de hâc voce amplius cogitandum cum eruditis viris existimem-Till, then, these learned men have considered this word, I think we may be allowed to consider it as formed from the Latin leo and natus, lion-born, and as the a in'natus is long, no shadow of reason can be given why it should not have the accent. This is the accentuation constantly given to it in the play of Cymbeline, and is in my opinion the best.

* Lucia.-Labbe cries out loudly against those who accent this word on the penultimate, which, as a Latin word, ought to have the accent on the antepenultimate syllable. If once, says he, we break through rules, why should we not pronounce Ammia, Anastasia, Cecilia, Leocadia, Natalia, &c. with the accent on the penultimate, likewise?-This ought to be a warning against our pronouncing the West-India island St. Lucia as we sometimes hear it-St. Luci'a.

Lys-i-me'li-a

* Lupercal. This word is so little interwoven with our language, that it ought to have its true Latin accent on the penultimate syllable. But wherever the antepenultimate accent is adopted in verse, as in Shakespeare's Julius Cæsar, where Antony says,

You all did see that on the Lu'percal

I thrice presented him a kingly crown

we ought to preserve it.—Mr. Barry, the actor, who was informed by some scholar of the Latin pronunciation of this word, adopted it in this place, and pronounced it Luper' cal, which grated every ear that heard him.

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