*Sandace. A sister of Xerxes, which I find in no lexicographer but Lem

priere, and in him with the accent on the first syllable; but from its Greek original

Zavdauxy it ought certainly to be accented on the second syllable.

+ Sapores. This word, says Labbe, is by Gavantus and others, ignorant of the Greek, accented on the first syllable.

Seleucia. Lempriere and Labbe accent this word on the penultimate; but Ainsworth, Gouldman, and Holyoke, on the antepenultimate. As this word, according to Strabo, had its penultimate formed of the dipthong ei, Zeλeuxaid, this syllable ought to have the accent; but as the antepenultimate accent is so incorporated into our tongue, I would strongly recommend the pronunciation which an English scholar would give it at first sight, and that is placing the accent on the This is the accent Milton gives it

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Eden stretch'd her line

From Auran eastward to the royal tow'rs

Of great Seleucia, built by Grecian kings.

Par. Lost, b. 4.

If, however, the English scholar wishes to shine in the classical pronunciation of this word, let him take care to pronounce the c like ́s only, and not like sh, which it necessarily has, if the accent be on the antepenultimate syllable.—See Rules 10 and 30.

* Serapis.-There is not a dissenting voice among our prosodists for the pronouncing of this word with the accent on the penultimate syllable; and yet, to show the tendency of English pronunciation, when a ship of this name had a desperate engagement with one of the French, which attracted the attention of the Public, every body pronounced it with the accent on the first syllable. Milton has done the same in his sublime description of the grandeur of Pandemonium :

Nor

-Not Babylon

great Alcairo such magnificence Equal'd in all their glories to enshrine

Belus or Serapis their gods; or seat

Their kings, when Egypt with Assyria strove,

In wealth and luxury.

Par. Lost, b. i. v. 717,

+ Sergiolus.-I find this word in no dictionary but Lempriere's, and here the accent is placed upon the penultimate instead of the antepenultimate syllable.

Severus.-This word, like Serapis, is universally mispronounced by the mere English scholar with the accent on the first syllable.

* Smintheus.-This word, like Orpheus, and others of the same form, has the accent on the first syllable; but poets often contract the two last syllables into one; as Pope

See Idomeneus.

O, Smintheus, sprung from fair Latona's line,
Thou guardian pow'r of Cilla the divine!