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(1) Two contiguous strong vowels after the accent naturally form two syllables: e.g., Dánao, héroe, temiéndoos. Yet the poets usually make diphthongs of them; e.g., Moratín:

Los héroes que la fama

Coronó de laureles,

and only exceptionally treat them as dissyllabic; e.g., Samaniego:

Cuando á un héròè quieras

Coronar con el lauro.

(2) If the first of two contiguous vowels after the accent is strong and the second is weak, they form a diphthong, as in amabais, temierais. But it is frequently dissolved with ease, since in many cases the vowels stood xxvi originally in separate syllables; thus amábades and temiérades were good forms down to the seventeenth century.

(3) If the first of two contiguous vowels after the accent is weak and the second strong, there is a diphthong usually indissoluble; e.g., injuria, limpio, continuo. Dissolution is possible, however, where u is the first vowel (as in continuo, estatua).