in placing the accent on the fecond fyllable of this word. His mode of pronunciation is indeed of no weight in such cases. He appears to have been but flightly acquainted with the profody of the ancients. The Greek and Roman poets preferved a remarkable uniformity in the quantity of their fyllables; and an English reader of tafte fhould certainly be guided by their authority. In proper names, all deviations from the invariable ufage of Homer, Virgil, Horace, &c. fhould be exploded as errors, or confidered as poetic licences. Tully, Ovid, Profer. pine, Diomed, Thebes, Athens, and other abbreviations have gained a fort of fanction by immemorial custom, and must be tolerated.

* Αντικλεια. Odyf. xi. 85. The penultima is a long fyllable.

Vigilius, or rather Virgilius, or Vergilius, was a native of Ireland, and became bifhop of Saltzburg in 767. He is faid to have had a controverfy with Boniface, archbishop of Mentz, about the Antipodes: "In quâ caufâ, fays Sir James Ware, Virgilius nofter immerito fuecubuit." De Script. Hib. p. 37.

Gefner

And Aphrodite, from the foam, her name.

Hef. Theog.

Sinks on Apidanus' green banks to rest.

Prop. i. 3.

Aratus, who a while relum'd the foul.

Thom. Wint.

The pride of Perfia at Arbela fell.

Great Archimedes, with fuperior fkill.

Archytas, what avails thy nice furvey?

Hor. od. i. 28.

In Arleopagus* the senate met.

And challenge fam'd Arion on the floods.

Dryd. Virg. E. vii.

Gefrier tells us, that about the year 780, Boniface accufed him before pope Zachary; and that he was remotus, removed, I fuppofe, from his bifhoprick. Gefn. Ifag. § 421. 618..

Virgilius died in 784, or 785.

Though the preceding ftory is related by Aventin, Ware, Gefner, and other writers, fome of whom affert, that Virgilius was "configned to the flames" [See Curiofities of Literature, P. 25. where he is erroneously called bishop of Salisbury] yet there is reafon to fufpect, that it is much exaggerated, or a groundless tradition. Vid. Mem. de Trev. an. 1708.

*The first fyllable in mayos, a bill, is uniformly fhort. See Odyf. v. 405. Ovid calls the Areopagus, fcopulus mavortis, Met. vi. 70.

Thom. Sum.

Like Cato firm, like Ariftides just.

Ariftodemus juft applaufe receiv'd.

With patriot zeal Ariftogiton glow'd.

Ye fons of Arfaces *, ye foes of Rome.

Arfacidæ, bellum, &c. Luc, i. 108. viii. 409.

This pronunciation is more agreeable to the Greek, than the Hebrew, 11-79]. —BEEEBOUλ for BEEλZEBOUC. Luke xi. 15. The former confifts of only three fyllables; the latter of four.

Affiduæ repetunt, quas perdant, Belides undas.

Ov. M. iv. 463.

Sleep'ft

Sleep'ft by the fable of Bellerus * old.

Milt. Lycid.

Next, with her bloody fcourge Bellona flies.

Pitt, Virg. viii.

Here vex'd by winter storms Benacus raves.
Add. Trav. p. 42. Virg. G. ii.

The lovely Berenice was thy care.

Theoc. xvii.

That fee Bootes urge his tardy wain.

Thom. Wint.

Whom gods Briareas, men Ægeon, name.

II. i.

And Briaréus, with all his hundred hands.

Dryd. Virg. vi.

Brifeis, radiant as the queen of love.

Il. xix.

Was it for this Bufiris was fubdu'd ?

Ov. ix.

* Bellerophon, whofe real name was Hipponous, or Hipponomus, was called Bellerophon, in confequence of having flain one Bellerus, a Corinthian prince. The fecond fyllable of Bellerus, like the fecond in Bellerophon, is fhort. Milton has taken an unauthorized liberty in making it long. Vid. Heyne, not. ad Apollod. ii. 3.

Et centum geminus Briarêus, & bellua Lernæ.
Virg. vi. 287.

C.

To Cafarea thence he took his way.

Begin, Calliope, begin the song.

He foars a new Callimachus in fong.

From Arachofia, from Candaor east.

Milt. P. R. ii.

When on Caphareus' rocks Oïleus fell.

Pitt, Virg. ii.

Cafus the ftrong, and Carpathus * the fair.

Il. ii. 824.

And Caucafus, and proud Olympus fhine.

Cafler, fam'd for fweetly-finging fwans †.

Ov. ii.

Ov. v. 386.

First

Homer calls this ifland Crapathus; probably because it fuited the measure of his verse. Vid. Cellar. Geog. vol. ii. P. 27.

Many of the Greek and Latin writers, particularly the poets, [fee Callim. Hym. in Del. 249. Virg. Ecl. ix. 29. Ov. Met. v. 386. xiv. 430. Epist. Hozoid. vii. Mart. xiii. 77.] have attributed a mufical voice to fwans; and, in conformity to this notion, have found an affinity between a swan and a poet. Horace calls Pindar, "the Theban swan;" and describes an imaginary