ΑCCENT
9 The accented syllable is marked with one of three
signs, called accents. These are
- The acute accent (´): ὁδός.
- The circumflex accent (^): τῆς ὁδοῦ.
- The grave accent (`): τὴν ὁδόν.
- a. These indicate changes of pitch, or speech-tune, not of
stress, in the ancient pronunciation. But now, both in Greece
and elsewhere, all alike are pronounced as a simple increase of
stress, like the accent in English.