"Penult" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... two syllables are accented upon the penult (next to the last) if that is a long syllable, otherwise upon the antepenult (second from the last); as, ama'vi, ...
— New Latin Grammar • Charles E. Bennett
... circumflex () is placed on a syllable formed by the combination of two, the first of which had an acute and the second a grave; hence only on the last, or next to the last syllable, and only on a long vowel or a diphthong. When the last syllable has a short vowel, such a penult, if accented, takes ...
— Greek in a Nutshell • James Strong
... as Maecenas, Porsena, Vivenna, Caecina, Spurinna. The vowel in the penult is originally long, but in consequence of the throwing back of the accent upon the initial syllable is frequently shortened and even rejected. Thus we find Porse(n)na as well as Porsena, and ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen
... Hyperion is properly on the penult, which is long in quantity, but the English poets, with rare exceptions, have thrown it back upon the antepenult. It is thus in the six instances in which Shakes. uses the word: e.g. Hamlet, iii. 4: "Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself." The word does not occur in ...
— Select Poems of Thomas Gray • Thomas Gray
... he pushed a piece of rock forward, opening a space wide enough to penult him to thrust an arm through. "One more chunk out of here and ...
— Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal - or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol • G. Harvey Ralphson |
