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:—342 APPENDIX.—;II.THE ACCENT,918.Accent is a particular stress of voice laidon a particularsyllable of a word, and marked thus (' ); as, pa'-te?*,an'-i-mus. Its place is on the penult or antepenult.919.—When a word has more accents than one, the last is called the"primary accent, the one preceding it, the secondary, marked ( )preceding;that, is often a third, marked ( '" ) ; and sometimes even a fourth,marked "" ( ;)and all of them subject to the same rules. These are asfollows920.—RULES.1. Words of two syllables have the accent on the first, orpenult ;as, pa'-ter, mu'-sa, au'-rum.2. Words of more than two syllables, when the penult islong, have the accent on the penult ; as, a-ml'cus : when thepenult is short they have the accent on the antepenult ; as,dom'-i-nus.3. When the enclitics que. ve, ne, are added to a word, thetwo words are considered as one, and it is accented accordingly; as, pa-ter'-que, am"-l-cus'-ne, dom ,r -i-nus f -ve.4. If only two syllables precede the primary accent, thesecondary accent is placed on the first ; as, dom"-i-nb ! -rum.5. If three or four syllables precede the primary accent, thesecondary is placed sometimes on the first and sometimes onthe second ; as, tol' ! -e-ra-biV-i-us, de-mon n stra-ban'-tur.6. Some words which have four syllables before the primaryaccent, and all that have more than four have a third accentand in longer words even a fourth; as, pab r "-u-la"-ti-o f -nis,pab !U, -u-la n -ti-on n -i-bus t -que.III.THE DIVISION OF WORDS INTO SYLLABLES.920.—In Latin, every word has as many syllables as thereare separate vowels or diphthongs. Hence the followingRULES.1. Two vowels coming together and not forming a diphthong,must be divided ;as, JDe'-us, su'-us, au r -re-us.2. A single consonant, or a mute and a liquid (/, r) betweenthe last two vowels of a word, or between any two unaccentedvowels, are joined to the last ; as, ^a'-TER, aZ'-a-CER, aZ'-a-CRis,tor f -e-RA-bil r -i-us, per rrr -e-GRi-?id"-ti-d'-ms.Exc. But tib-i and sib-i join it to the first.