nite principles, involving in some cases a disregard of the
classical quantities though not of the classical stress or accent. It
survives in borrowed words such as _[=a]li[)a]s_ and _st[)a]mina_,
in naturalized legal phrases, such as _N[=i]s[=i] Prius_ and _[=o]nus
probandi_, and with some few changes in the Westminster Play. This
pronunciation is now out of fashion, but, since its supersession does
not justify a change in the pronunciation of words which have become
part of our language, it will be well to begin with a formulation of
its rules.

The rule of Latin stress was observed as it obtained in the time
of Quintilian. In the earliest Latin the usage had been other, the
stress coming as early in the word as was possible. Down to the days
of Terence and probably somewhat later the old rule still held good
of quadrisyllables with the scansion of _m[)u]l[)i][)e]r[)i]s_ or
_m[)u]l[)i][)e]r[=e]s_, but in other words had given way to the later
Quintilian rule, that all words with a long unit as penultimate
had the stress on the vowel in that unit, while words of more
than two syllables with a short penultimate had the stress on the
antepenultimate. I say 'unit' because here, as in scansion, what
counts is not the syllable, but the vowel plus all the consonants
that come between it and the next vowel. Thus _inf['e]rnus_, where
the penultimate vowel is short, no less than _supr['e]mus_, where it
is long, has the stress on the penultima. In _volucris_, where the
penultimate unit was short, as it was in prose and could be in verse,
the stress was on the _o_, but when _ucr_ made a long unit the
stress comes on the _u_, though of course the vowel remains short. In
polysyllables there was a secondary stress on the alternate vowels.
Ignorance of this usage has made a present-day critic falsely accuse
Shakespeare of a false quantity in the line

Cor['i]ol['a]nus in Cor['i]oli.

It may be safely said that from the Reformation to the nineteenth
century no Englishman pronounced the last word otherwise than I
have written it. The author of the Pronouncing Dictionary attached
to the 'Dictionary of Gardening' unfortunately instructs us to say
_gl['a]diolus_ on the ground that the _i_ is short. The ground
alleged, though true, is irrelevant, and, although Terence would have
pronounced it _gl['a]diolus_, Quintilian, like Cicero, would have said
_glad['i]olus_. Mr. Myles quotes Pliny for the word, but Pliny would
no more have thou