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The Ancient Use of the Greek Accents in Reading and Chanting (Classic Reprint): With Some Newly Restored Greek Melodies - Couverture souple

G. T. Carruthers

 
9781332473380: The Ancient Use of the Greek Accents in Reading and Chanting (Classic Reprint): With Some Newly Restored Greek Melodies

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Others have thought that the accents were introduced when it became the fashion for Roman citizens to profess a know ledge of Greek. The use of the accents was to help foreigners to read Greek readily, and to point out to them the emphatic syllables, peculiar stresses, and other such particulars of a living language, which was not their mother-tongue. Whatever may have been the reason which urged the old grammarians to affix accents to words, it is plain that it was an urgent reason, for it involved a great deal of extra trouble on all those who made use of accents in writing. At the same time, the reason was a good one, for all future writers adopted the accents as though they were the necessary concomitants of the words.

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