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First. It has the fame permutations of the vowels and 

 diphthongs, e and a/, i and a, which they have. Thefe arc 

 very frequent in the book of the A(!]ls, which belonged to vene- 

 rable Bede : and wc may obferve a* written for e, in one of the 

 Corcyra:an infcriptions. Vide Diarium Ital. p. 424. 



Secondly. It changes fome letters as they do. Thus it 

 writes e for a. ; thus luc^iii^jikvn for ^/sfpajitjitei'ii, as in the Alexan- 

 drian and Ephrem ; 'eKaS-fpiV^ij for 'sxa^ap/o-^i; : The fame change is 

 frequent in the manufcript of Beza. It alfo writes a. for e ; 

 thus Iz'i^SctrB for IIijASete, Matt. xi. 7. which is done in the fame 

 place in Ephrem and Beza's manufcript, and occurs in thele 

 manufcripts and the Alexandrian in Matt. xxvi. 39. We may 

 obferve a fimilar change of thefe letters in the infcriptions copied 

 by Pocock from the ftatue of Memnon, where l^i^iSiyyuro is written 

 for l^epSeyytTo. And Piirjnichus, a grammarian of the fecond 

 century, mentions and condemns (p. 31) a like confufion of 

 thefe letters. It writes alfo I for 5, in the following inftance, 

 Bij^ipa^r ; as in the Alexandrian, BriSa-aitu. The fame confufion 

 of thefe letters is mentioned by Phrynichus, in the place to 

 which I have referred above \ by Eujiathhis, in his notes upon the 

 twenty-firft book of the Iliad^ page 1338, 1. 40 ; and by the author 

 of the Etymologicon magnum of Sjlburgius, p. 317, fub voce 

 UxSup. An inftance of a fimilar change may be found in the 

 infcriptions of Palmyra, which write EuvSmoc for Boiu9ix,o;. It is 

 alfo believed that it writes If^fjiiiTu for Iv f^ia-u ; which is done both 

 in the Alexandrian, and Bede's manufcript of the A£ls. The 

 Corcyraan Infcription (Vide Diar. Ital". p. 415) writes, in the 

 fame manner, e^ju^V/ for h fi^vt ; and the Oxford Marbles. Vide 



Marmor. 



