* Alcinous.—There are no words more frequently mispronounced by a mere English scholar than those of this termination. By such a one we sometimes hear Alcinous and Antinous pronounced in three syllables, as if written Al-ci-nouz and An-ti-nouz, rhyming with vows; but classical pronunciation requires that these vowels should form distinct syllables.

+ Aleius Campus.

Lest from this flying steed unrein'd (as once
Bellerophon, though from a lower clime)
Dismounted, on th' Aleian field I fall,

Erroneous there to wander, and forlorn.

MILTON'S Par. Lost, b. vii. v. 17.

+ Alexander. This word is as frequently pronounced with the accent on the first as on the third syllable.

*Amphigenia.-See Iphigenia, and Rule 30, prefixed to this vocabulary.

+ This epithet from the Greek avasuw, emergens, signifying rising out of the water, is applied to the picture of Venus rising out of the sea, as originally painted by Apelles. I doubt not that some, who only hear this word without seeing it written, suppose it to mean Anno Domini, the year of our Lord.

* Andronicus. This word is uniformly pronounced by our prosodists with the penultimate accent: and yet so averse is an English ear to placing the accent on the penultimate i, that by all English scholars we hear it placed upon the antepenultimate syllable. That this was the pronunciation of this word in Queen Elizabeth's time, appears plainly from the tragedy of Titus Andronicus, said to be written by Shakespeare; in which we every where find the antepenultimate pronunciation adopted. It may indeed be questioned, whether Shakespeare's learning extended to a knowledge of the quantity of this Græco-Latin word; but, as Mr. Stevens has justly observed, there is a greater number of classical allusions in this play than are scattered over all the rest of the performances on which the seal of Shakespeare is indubitably fixed; and therefore it may be presumed that the author could not be ignorant of the Greek and Latin pronunciation of this word, but followed the received English pronunciation of his time; and which by all but professed scholars is still continued. See Sophronicus.

* Antiochia. For words of this termination, see Iphigenia, and No. 30 of the

Rules prefixed to this Vocabulary.