Philomen Probert is Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College. She is the author of A New Short Guide to the Accentuation of Ancient Greek (Bloomsbury, 2003), Ancient Greek Accentuation: Synchronic Patterns, Frequency Effects, and Prehistory (OUP, 2006), and Early Greek Relative Clauses (OUP, 2015), as well as co-editor of Laws and Rules in Indo-European with Andreas Willi (OUP, 2012).

Probert takes us on an eye-opening tour through some of the highways ... and byways ... of the grammatical tradition, working through this often tricky material patiently, plainly, and with admirable clarity.

• Frontmatter List of Figures and Tables General Abbreviations Ancient Authors and Works, with Editions Used Symbols Used in the Presentation of Texts and Translations 1: Introduction 2: Some History of Scholarship: An Unhelpful Question and Some Helpful Ones 2.1: Pitch or stress? 2.2: Why 'pitch or stress' is an unhelpful question 2.3: Some helpful questions 2.3.1: An accent on the final syllable of prepositions and relative pronoun forms? 2.3.2: An accent on the syllable before an enclitic? 2.3.3: An acute/circumflex contrast? 2.4: Questions that will not be pursued in this book 3: Ancient Greek Theory of Prosody: Some Relevant Characteristics 3.1: Ancient terms and concepts for Greek accentuation 3.2: Two levels of description 3.3: 'Natural accents' as abstract entities 3.4: A second function for 'natural accents' 3.5: Discussion of accents in texts 3.6: Alternative descriptions of the same facts 3.7: Distinctions can be reinterpreted as abstract 4: Latin Proclitics I: Late Antique Grammarians 4.1: Approach one: one level of description 4.2: Approach two: on an abstract level proclitics obey the 'penultimate law' 4.3: Approach three: an acute on the final syllable, on an abstract level 4.4: Latin is not Greek: challenges for approach three 4.4.1: The scope of the lulling rule 4.4.2: Proclitics with a long final vowel 4.4.3: Proclitics before enclitics 4.5: Conclusions 5: Latin Proclitics II: Earlier Stages of the Tradition 5.1: P.Sorb. inv. 2069 on unde 5.1.1: Excursus: indefinite words in Priscian 5.1.2: P.Sorb. inv. 2069 and Priscian on unde: a comparison 5.2: Aulus Gellius 5.3: Velius Longus 5.4: Quintilian 5.5: Remmius Palaemon 5.6: Conclusions 6: que, ue, ne, ce: Latin Grammarians on Enclitics 6.1: Approach one: one level of description 6.2: Approach two: a forward shift of accent 6.3: Approach three: one accent shifts forward and one is lost 6.4: Approach four: the second accent shifts backwards and the first is lost 6.5: When is que not an enclitic? 6.6: Enclitics after prepositions 6.7: Latin grammarians on que, ue, ne, ce: a summary 6.8: Whether to take the grammarians' principle seriously 6.8.1: Further evidence for the linguistic reality of the pair ítaque ~ itáque 6.9: How far back can we trace the tradition? 6.9.1: The common source of Diomedes and Donatus 6.9.2: Varro 6.9.3: Early Latin? 7: Latin Vowel Length 7.1: Loss of distinctive vowel quantity in Latin 7.2: Vowel length in late antique Latin grammarians 8: The Latin Circumflex 8.1: When did Greek acutes and circumflexes stop sounding different? 8.2: Early stages of the acute/circumflex distinction in the Latin grammatical tradition 8.2.1: Cicero 8.2.2: Varro 8.2.3: Vitruvius 8.2.4: Quintilian 8.2.5: Aulus Gellius 8.2.6: Early stages of the tradition: a summary 8.3: Late antique grammarians on Latin words that deviate from the penultimate law 8.3.1: Grecizing accents on final syllables 8.3.2: Accents on final syllables of apocopated and syncopated forms 8.3.3: Wrong accents 8.3.4: Abstract accents 8.3.5: ergo 'for the sake of' 8.3.6: insula 8.3.7: Deviations from the penultimate law: a summary 8.4: The circumflex debate: a proposed resolution 8.5: A footnote: late antique grammarians and the 'slow' accent 9: 'For the sake of a distinction'? 9.1: pone 9.2: ergo 9.3: Aeneid I. 32 9.4: Valeri 9.5: Conclusions 10: Conclusions Endmatter References Index

Philomen Probert is Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College. She is the author of A New Short Guide to the Accentuation of Ancient Greek (Bloomsbury, 2003), Ancient Greek Accentuation: Synchronic Patterns, Frequency Effects, and Prehistory (OUP, 2006), and Early Greek Relative Clauses (OUP, 2015), as well as co-editor of Laws and Rules in Indo-European with Andreas Willi (OUP, 2012).

Probert takes us on an eye-opening tour through some of the highways ... and byways ... of the grammatical tradition, working through this often tricky material patiently, plainly, and with admirable clarity.

• Frontmatter List of Figures and Tables General Abbreviations Ancient Authors and Works, with Editions Used Symbols Used in the Presentation of Texts and Translations 1: Introduction 2: Some History of Scholarship: An Unhelpful Question and Some Helpful Ones 2.1: Pitch or stress? 2.2: Why 'pitch or stress' is an unhelpful question 2.3: Some helpful questions 2.3.1: An accent on the final syllable of prepositions and relative pronoun forms? 2.3.2: An accent on the syllable before an enclitic? 2.3.3: An acute/circumflex contrast? 2.4: Questions that will not be pursued in this book 3: Ancient Greek Theory of Prosody: Some Relevant Characteristics 3.1: Ancient terms and concepts for Greek accentuation 3.2: Two levels of description 3.3: 'Natural accents' as abstract entities 3.4: A second function for 'natural accents' 3.5: Discussion of accents in texts 3.6: Alternative descriptions of the same facts 3.7: Distinctions can be reinterpreted as abstract 4: Latin Proclitics I: Late Antique Grammarians 4.1: Approach one: one level of description 4.2: Approach two: on an abstract level proclitics obey the 'penultimate law' 4.3: Approach three: an acute on the final syllable, on an abstract level 4.4: Latin is not Greek: challenges for approach three 4.4.1: The scope of the lulling rule 4.4.2: Proclitics with a long final vowel 4.4.3: Proclitics before enclitics 4.5: Conclusions 5: Latin Proclitics II: Earlier Stages of the Tradition 5.1: P.Sorb. inv. 2069 on unde 5.1.1: Excursus: indefinite words in Priscian 5.1.2: P.Sorb. inv. 2069 and Priscian on unde: a comparison 5.2: Aulus Gellius 5.3: Velius Longus 5.4: Quintilian 5.5: Remmius Palaemon 5.6: Conclusions 6: que, ue, ne, ce: Latin Grammarians on Enclitics 6.1: Approach one: one level of description 6.2: Approach two: a forward shift of accent 6.3: Approach three: one accent shifts forward and one is lost 6.4: Approach four: the second accent shifts backwards and the first is lost 6.5: When is que not an enclitic? 6.6: Enclitics after prepositions 6.7: Latin grammarians on que, ue, ne, ce: a summary 6.8: Whether to take the grammarians' principle seriously 6.8.1: Further evidence for the linguistic reality of the pair ítaque ~ itáque 6.9: How far back can we trace the tradition? 6.9.1: The common source of Diomedes and Donatus 6.9.2: Varro 6.9.3: Early Latin? 7: Latin Vowel Length 7.1: Loss of distinctive vowel quantity in Latin 7.2: Vowel length in late antique Latin grammarians 8: The Latin Circumflex 8.1: When did Greek acutes and circumflexes stop sounding different? 8.2: Early stages of the acute/circumflex distinction in the Latin grammatical tradition 8.2.1: Cicero 8.2.2: Varro 8.2.3: Vitruvius 8.2.4: Quintilian 8.2.5: Aulus Gellius 8.2.6: Early stages of the tradition: a summary 8.3: Late antique grammarians on Latin words that deviate from the penultimate law 8.3.1: Grecizing accents on final syllables 8.3.2: Accents on final syllables of apocopated and syncopated forms 8.3.3: Wrong accents 8.3.4: Abstract accents 8.3.5: ergo 'for the sake of' 8.3.6: insula 8.3.7: Deviations from the penultimate law: a summary 8.4: The circumflex debate: a proposed resolution 8.5: A footnote: late antique grammarians and the 'slow' accent 9: 'For the sake of a distinction'? 9.1: pone 9.2: ergo 9.3: Aeneid I. 32 9.4: Valeri 9.5: Conclusions 10: Conclusions Endmatter References Index

Philomen Probert is Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College. She is the author of A New Short Guide to the Accentuation of Ancient Greek (Bloomsbury, 2003), Ancient Greek Accentuation: Synchronic Patterns, Frequency Effects, and Prehistory (OUP, 2006), and Early Greek Relative Clauses (OUP, 2015), as well as co-editor of Laws and Rules in Indo-European with Andreas Willi (OUP, 2012).

Probert takes us on an eye-opening tour through some of the highways ... and byways ... of the grammatical tradition, working through this often tricky material patiently, plainly, and with admirable clarity.

• Frontmatter List of Figures and Tables General Abbreviations Ancient Authors and Works, with Editions Used Symbols Used in the Presentation of Texts and Translations 1: Introduction 2: Some History of Scholarship: An Unhelpful Question and Some Helpful Ones 2.1: Pitch or stress? 2.2: Why 'pitch or stress' is an unhelpful question 2.3: Some helpful questions 2.3.1: An accent on the final syllable of prepositions and relative pronoun forms? 2.3.2: An accent on the syllable before an enclitic? 2.3.3: An acute/circumflex contrast? 2.4: Questions that will not be pursued in this book 3: Ancient Greek Theory of Prosody: Some Relevant Characteristics 3.1: Ancient terms and concepts for Greek accentuation 3.2: Two levels of description 3.3: 'Natural accents' as abstract entities 3.4: A second function for 'natural accents' 3.5: Discussion of accents in texts 3.6: Alternative descriptions of the same facts 3.7: Distinctions can be reinterpreted as abstract 4: Latin Proclitics I: Late Antique Grammarians 4.1: Approach one: one level of description 4.2: Approach two: on an abstract level proclitics obey the 'penultimate law' 4.3: Approach three: an acute on the final syllable, on an abstract level 4.4: Latin is not Greek: challenges for approach three 4.4.1: The scope of the lulling rule 4.4.2: Proclitics with a long final vowel 4.4.3: Proclitics before enclitics 4.5: Conclusions 5: Latin Proclitics II: Earlier Stages of the Tradition 5.1: P.Sorb. inv. 2069 on unde 5.1.1: Excursus: indefinite words in Priscian 5.1.2: P.Sorb. inv. 2069 and Priscian on unde: a comparison 5.2: Aulus Gellius 5.3: Velius Longus 5.4: Quintilian 5.5: Remmius Palaemon 5.6: Conclusions 6: que, ue, ne, ce: Latin Grammarians on Enclitics 6.1: Approach one: one level of description 6.2: Approach two: a forward shift of accent 6.3: Approach three: one accent shifts forward and one is lost 6.4: Approach four: the second accent shifts backwards and the first is lost 6.5: When is que not an enclitic? 6.6: Enclitics after prepositions 6.7: Latin grammarians on que, ue, ne, ce: a summary 6.8: Whether to take the grammarians' principle seriously 6.8.1: Further evidence for the linguistic reality of the pair ítaque ~ itáque 6.9: How far back can we trace the tradition? 6.9.1: The common source of Diomedes and Donatus 6.9.2: Varro 6.9.3: Early Latin? 7: Latin Vowel Length 7.1: Loss of distinctive vowel quantity in Latin 7.2: Vowel length in late antique Latin grammarians 8: The Latin Circumflex 8.1: When did Greek acutes and circumflexes stop sounding different? 8.2: Early stages of the acute/circumflex distinction in the Latin grammatical tradition 8.2.1: Cicero 8.2.2: Varro 8.2.3: Vitruvius 8.2.4: Quintilian 8.2.5: Aulus Gellius 8.2.6: Early stages of the tradition: a summary 8.3: Late antique grammarians on Latin words that deviate from the penultimate law 8.3.1: Grecizing accents on final syllables 8.3.2: Accents on final syllables of apocopated and syncopated forms 8.3.3: Wrong accents 8.3.4: Abstract accents 8.3.5: ergo 'for the sake of' 8.3.6: insula 8.3.7: Deviations from the penultimate law: a summary 8.4: The circumflex debate: a proposed resolution 8.5: A footnote: late antique grammarians and the 'slow' accent 9: 'For the sake of a distinction'? 9.1: pone 9.2: ergo 9.3: Aeneid I. 32 9.4: Valeri 9.5: Conclusions 10: Conclusions Endmatter References Index