(2) Other syllables (not ultimate or penultimate) end with a vowel: e.g. Pi-ræ-us;
Except when (a) the vowel is followed by x or any two consonants (not a mute with l or r): e.g. Ix-i´-on, Pel-o-pon-ne´-sus; and when (b) the syllable is accented and its vowel followed by one or more consonants: e.g. An2-ax-ag´-o-ras, Am-phic´ty-on, Œd-'i-pus.
Note (a). But an accented a, e, or o before a single consonant (or a mute with l or r), followed by e, i, or y before another vowel, is not joined with the succeeding consonant, and consequently has the long sound: Pau-sā'-ni-as; De-mē'-tri-us.
Note (b). An accented u before a single consonant (or mute with l or r) is not joined with the succeeding consonant, and consequently has the long sound: Jū'-pi-ter.
(3) All words have as many syllables as they have vowels and diphthongs.
[INDEX OF MYTHOLOGICAL SUBJECTS AND THEIR SOURCES]
[Ordinary figures refer to pages of the Text. Figures in italics preceded by C. refer to sections of the Commentary and incidentally to the corresponding sections in the Text.
In the case of words of which the correct pronunciation has not seemed to be clearly indicated by their accentuation and syllabication, the sounds of the letters have been denoted thus: ā, like a in grāy; ā́, like ā, only less prolonged; ă, like a in hăve; ä, like a in fär; ȧ, like a in sofȧ; a̤ and au like a in a̤ll; æ, ē, and œ, like ee in meet; ḗ, like ē, only less prolonged; ĕ, like e in ĕnd; ê, like e in thêre; ẽ, like e in ẽrr; ī, like i in pīne; ĭ, like i in pĭn; ō, like ō in nōte; ṓ, like ō, only less prolonged; ŏ, like o in nŏt; ô, like o in ôrb; ŏŏ, like oo in fŏŏt; ōō, like oo in mōōn; ou, as in out; ū, like u in ūse; ü, like the French u; ꞓ and ꞓh, like k; th, as in the; ç, like s; ḡ, like g in ḡet; ġ, like j; s̟, like z; ċh, as in German ach; G, small capital, as in German Hamburg.]