Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings, 1871
In this description of the Greek accent, it has been taken for granted that there was an actual regular difference of pitch between different syllables of a word, and that the proper use of the written accent was to represent that difference. The correctness of this assumption is implied in the very names of the accents. The words 6569, 'sharp, ' and Bapec, 'heavy, '
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