Discussion of accentuation rules for words (personal names, place-names, and common nouns) ending in -τη with examples (Βρεμέτη, Ταϋγέτη, Μελίτη, etc.), noting paroxytone vs. oxytone behavior, effects of final vowels (ε/ο, ι, ω, υ), syllable counts, and morphological categories.
Τὰ εἰς 'τη' παραληγόμενα τῷ 'ε' ἢ 'ο' κύρια ὄντα βαρύνεται, Βρεμέτη, Ὠκυπέτη, Δημαρέτη. Ταϋγέτη ἡ μήτηρ Εὐρώτα. καὶ Φανότη πόλις Φωκίδος ἣ καὶ Φανότεια καὶ Φανοτεύς. καὶ Θεοδότη. τὸ δὲ Ἀφεταί πόλις τῆς Μαγνησίας. Ἑκαταῖος· ὅτι ἐντεῦθεν δευτέραν ἄφεσιν ἡ Ἀργὼ ἐποιήσατο ἢ ὅτι ἐκεῖ οἱ Ἀργοναῦται τὸν Ἡρακλέα κατέλιπον. κεῖται δ´ ἐν Παγασιτικῷ κόλπῳ. —καὶ Ἰεταί φρούριον Σικελίας. Φίλιστος ἕκτῃ—πληθυντικῶς λέγεται. καὶ τὸ Ξυπετή ἐπὶ δήμου τάττεται. ἔστι δὲ δῆμος Κεκροπίδος φυλῆς. τὰ δὲ προσηγορικὰ ὀξύνεται, ἀρετή, τελετή, βιοτή. τὸ δὲ μελέτη παροξύνεται σύνθετον ὂν παρὰ τὸ μέλειν καὶ ἐτεὸν τὸ ἀληθές. Τὰ εἰς 'τη' παραληγόμενα τῷ 'ι' ὑπερδισύλλαβα κύρια ὄντα βαρύνεται, Μελίτη ἡ Αἰγαίου τοῦ ποταμοῦ καὶ νῆσος μεταξὺ Ἠπείρου καὶ Ἰταλίας. ἔστι καὶ πόλις ἄποικος Καρχηδονίων καὶ δῆμος Οἰνηΐδος φυλῆς. Ἀμφιτρίτη, Ἀφροδίτη. τὸ δὲ λιτή δισύλλαβον ὀξύνεται ὡς καὶ Λιταί πόλις Λακωνική. τὸ δὲ Τρίτη πόλις περὶ τὰς Ἡρακλείας στήλας βαρύνεται ἐπιθετικὸν ὄν. Τὰ εἰς 'τη' πρὸ τέλους ἔχοντα τὸ 'υ' ὀξύνεται, ἀϋτή ἡ βοή, πινυτή τὸ ἐπίθετον »μήτηρ πινυτή« (Od. υ 131), Πινυτή δὲ καὶ τὸ κύριον. τὸ δὲ προσηγορικὸν εἰσὶν οἳ παροξύνουσιν, Ἀρίσταρχος δὲ ὀξύνει καὶ ἐπεκράτησεν οὕτως ἡ παράδοσις. Λυταί χωρίον Θεσσαλίας διὰ τὸ λῦσαι τὰ Τέμπη Ποσειδῶνα καὶ σκεδάσαι τὸ ἀπὸ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ ὕδωρ. τὸ δὲ Ἀφύτη πόλις πρὸς τῇ Παλλήνῃ Θρᾴκης, ἣ καὶ Ἄφυτις καὶ Ἄφυτος ἀπὸ Ἀφύτου τινὸς ἐγχωρίου, καὶ Προχύτη νῆσος Σικελίας βαρύνεται. Τὰ εἰς 'τη' ὑπερδισύλλαβα τῷ 'ω' παραληγόμενα βαρύνεται, Κριθώτη πόλις Ἑλλησπόντου· ἔστι καὶ ἄκρα Ἀκαρνανίας. Περκώτη καὶ Παλαιπερκώτη πόλις Τρωάδος. Γεφυρώτη πόλις Λιβύης, Γιγγλυμώτη Φοινίκης πόλις ὡς Ἑκαταῖος. τὸ μέντοι μηλωτή, κηρωτή ὀξύνεται καὶ τὸ οἰσπωτή ὁ ῥύπος. τὸ δὲ Πρωτή νῆσος παρὰ τῇ Σφακτηρίᾳ καὶ Πύλῳ δισύλλαβον ὀξύνεται.
Proper names ending in -τη with penult in ε or ο are accented with a grave: Βρεμέτη, Ὠκυπέτη, Δημαρέτη. Ταϋγέτη, the mother of Εὐρώτας; and Φανότη, a city of Phocis, which is also called Φανότεια and Φανοτεύς; and Θεοδότη. But Ἀφεταί is a city of Magnesia. Hecataeus: “either because from there the Argo made a second putting-off, or because there the Argonauts left Heracles behind.” It lies in the Pagasetic gulf. —And Ἰεταί, a fort of Sicily; Philistus in the sixth book— it is said in the plural. And Ξυπετή is classed as a deme; it is a deme of the Cecropid tribe. But appellatives are accented with an acute: ἀρετή, τελετή, βιοτή. But μελέτη is accented with a circumflex on the penult, since it is a compound from μέλειν and ἐτεόν, “the true.” Proper names ending in -τη with penult in ι, of more than two syllables, are accented with a grave: Μελίτη, the daughter of Aegeus the river, and an island between Epirus and Italy; there is also a city, a colony of the Carthaginians, and a deme of the Oeneid tribe; Ἀμφιτρίτη, Ἀφροδίτη. But λιτή, being disyllabic, is accented with an acute, as also Λιταί, a Laconian city. But Τρίτη, a city near the Pillars of Heracles, is accented with a grave, since it is adjectival. Words ending in -τη with υ before the last syllable are accented with an acute: ἀϋτή, “the shout”; πινυτή, the epithet “μήτηρ πινυτή” (Od. υ 131); and Πινυτή is also a proper name. But as an appellative some accent it with a circumflex on the penult; Aristarchus, however, accents it with an acute, and thus the tradition has prevailed. Λυταί, a place in Thessaly, so called because Poseidon “loosed” Tempe and scattered the water from the flood. But Ἀφύτη, a city by Pallene in Thrace, which is also called Ἄφυτις and Ἄφυτος, from a certain local man named Ἀφύτος; and Προχύτη, an island of Sicily, are accented with a grave. Words ending in -τη of more than two syllables with penult in ω are accented with a grave: Κριθώτη, a city of the Hellespont; there is also a headland of Acarnania; Περκώτη and Παλαιπερκώτη, a city of the Troad; Γεφυρώτη, a city of Libya; Γιγγλυμώτη, a city of Phoenicia, as Hecataeus says. However μηλωτή and κηρωτή are accented with an acute, and also οἰσπωτή, “filth.” But Πρωτή, an island by Sphacteria and Pylos, being disyllabic, is accented with an acute.