in the Composition of Nouns and Adjectives. 2% 
tive corrosive was formed, while the Lucilian vescus was a com- 
pound of ve and esca, and must originally have differed in ortho- 
graphy and pronunciation from the other. 
Ve-sbius *, adjective vesbinus, an ancient name for the moun- 
tain now called Vesuvius (Monte di Somma), parum extinctus, 
scarcely extinguished. Raovt Rocuette, the laborious historian 
of the Grecian colonies, assigns the foundation of the Italian 
Cume to the twelfth century before Christ. This may be doubt- 
ed; but most assuredly the Greek settlements on the shores of the 
Bay of Naples cannot be referred to a late era. The Chalcidian 
colony of Cumz soon spread along the coast, and Diczearchia (af- 
terwards Puteoli), Parthenope, Palzopolis, Neapolis, Pompeii, 
Herculaneum, and other names of pure Greek origin, attest the 
extent of their prosperity. These colonies assigned to the modern 
Ischia the name of Inarime, because Homer had mentioned that 
the “ couch of Typhoeus” was e Agiwois}; and the modern Procida 
they called Tgoyvra, the “ poured forth.” Hence, we may infer 
that the former was an active volcano when the Greeks arrived on 
this coast, and that the latter emerged from the sea during their 
residence on these shores. Hence also the name “ Phlegrei 
Campi” applied to the district between Puteoli and Neapolis. 
It is consequently by no means improbable that the same Greeks 
bestowed an appropriate name on that mountain, which looked 
* ZBinvyys, oBeow (root 78), English, guench (provincial squench). When the 
Greeks threw the gu out of their alphabet, they replaced it in general, although 
not in all cases, by x or 8. Replace the gu, and the identity of c&s« with the 
English quench or squench becomes immediately visible. I am preparing an essay 
upon that wonderful reform of the Greek alphabet, by which they threw out all 
guttural and drawling sounds, and replaced them by the long vowels and double 
consonants. I shall submit the leading facts in a paper to the Royal Society, be- 
fore I publish the work. 
Evy Agios oft Pact TuQweos empevas evrves. ‘This is the only allusion in the Homeric 
he y 
writings to volcanic action. 
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