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WHAT the Greeks call prosw|di/ai, or tones, The Greeks had a pitch accent, pronouncing the accented syllable with a higher tone. our early scholars called now notae vocum, or marks of tone, now moderamenta, or guides, now accenticulae, or accents, and now voculationes, or intonations. But the fault which we designate when we say now that anyone speaks barbare, or outlandishly, they did not call outlandish but rustic, and they said that those speaking with that fault spoke in a countrified manner (rustice). Publius Nigidius, in his Grammatical Notes Fr. 39, Swoboda. says: Speech becomes rustic, if you misplace the aspirates. Cf. Catull. lxxxiv. Whether therefore those who before the time of the deified Augustus expressed themselves purely and properly used the word barbarismus (outlandishness), which is now common, I for my part have not yet been able to discover.
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That Homer in his poems and Herodotus in his Histories spoke differently of the nature of the lion.
