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 * late 1st C. BC,, Περὶ Συνθέσεως Ὀνομάτων in The Critical Essays II ( № 466, 1985), American ISBN 0674995139, British ISBN 0434994669, chapter xi, paragraph 4 (page 76, line 22 – page 78, line 5):
 * διαλέκτου μὲν οὖν μέλος ἑνὶ μετρεῖται διαστήματι τῷ λεγομένῳ διὰ πέντε ὡς ἔγγιστα, καὶ οὔτε ἐπιτείνεται πέρα τῶν τριῶν τόνων καὶ ἡμιτονίου ἐπὶ τὸ ὀξὺ οὔτ᾽ ἀνίεται τοῦ χωρίου τούτου πλέον ἐπὶ τὸ βαρύ. οὐ μὴν ἅπασα λέξις ἡ καθ᾽ ἓν μόριον λόγου ταττομένη ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς λέγεται τάσεως, ἀλλ᾽ ἡ μὲν ἐπὶ τῆς ὀξείας, ἡ δ᾽ ἐπὶ τῆς βαρείας, ἡ δ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἀμφοῖν. τῶν δὲ ἀμφοτέρας τὰς τάσεις ἐχουσῶν αἱ μὲν κατὰ μίαν συλλαβὴν συνεφθαρμένον ἔχουσι τῷ ὀξεῖ τὸ βαρύ, ἃς δὴ περισπωμένας καλοῦμεν· αἱ δὲ ἐν ἑτέρᾳ τε καὶ ἑτέρᾳ χωρὶς ἑκάτερον ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτοῦ τὴν οἰκείαν φυλάττον φύσιν.
 * Now the melody of spoken language is measured by a single interval, which is very close to that which is called a fifth. When the voice rises towards the acute, it does not rise more than three tones and a semitone; and when it falls towards the grave, it does not fall from this position by more than this interval. However, the whole utterance during one word is not delivered at the same pitch throughout, but one part of it is at the acute pitch, another is at the grave, another is at both. Of the words which have both pitches, some have the grave fused with the acute on the same syllable, and we call these “circumflexed”; others have them falling on separate syllables, and each retains its own quality. ― translation from: Stephen Usher, opere citato LCL 466 (1985), chapter xi, paragraph 4, page 77, line 24 – page 79, line 5