"Antepenultimate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... they can, consistently with the law which restricts the accent to the last three syllables. Thus while in Sanskrit a word like Agamemnn would in the vocative retract the accent on the first syllable gamemnon, the Greek could do no more than say Agammnon with the accent on the antepenultimate. In the same manner the vocative of Aristotels, can only be Aristteles, whereas in Sanskrit it would ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller |
