5 - How were Latin loanwords accented in Greek?

Summary

Although it is sometimes argued that Latin loanwords were simply accented like Greek words, the reality was more complicated. We have evidence from the grammarian Herodian (via the epitome of pseudo-Arcadius) that Latin words sometimes had different accents from Greek words with the same terminations. There is also an accented papyrus showing a Latinate accent on a loanword. But Herodian also tells us that some Latin words did change their accents in Greek; there is no hard-and-fast rule for predicting which these were, and all available evidence must be examined on a case-by-case basis.