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243:(Padua, 1569). This work gives a painstaking description of the articulation of vowels and consonants. It shows that Rhys was familiar with all the main languages of Europe. It was a pioneering work on the physiology of speech. While in Pistoia he wrote a Greek grammar, which has since been lost. He also published a Latin grammar at Venice, which was very successful in its day but seems to have also been lost.
262:, Glamorgan. The dedication is followed by Latin complimentary verses by Camden and John Stradling, a Latin address to the reader by Humphrey Prichard of Bangor, and Rhys's own Welsh preface. The book contains a grammar of the Welsh language, a discussion of the art of poetry and a collection of poetry in Welsh.
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Myddelton (1593 and 1603) and
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Siôn Dafydd Rhys died around 1609 in Clun Hir, Brecknock. Wood asserts that Rhys died a Roman
Catholic, but Prichard calls him "sinceræ religionis propagandæ avidissimus." His son, Walter Rhys, was vicar of Brecon from 1576 to 1621.
139:, or minor nobility. The family legend was that his father, Dafydd Rhys, was son of Rhys Llwyd Brydydd of Glamorganshire. Dafydd Rhys came to Anglesey as gardener to Sir William Gruffydd of Penrhyn, who married Jane Stradling of
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Cambrobrytannicae
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