Particularly of the L E Tl'ER 2 1 T M A. 121 



• ;; while the breath rufl.es through the middle part of it and 



emits a gentle and conftrided fibilation about the teeth -' 



The name itfelf is evidently derived from ./r 7 /. / ' :, 



from the hifhng found of 'which it f tL ffn l tf T 



called the ferpentine letter. Some have evfn fffde t. aT 



TLfaCed ; Th"f'^^^ '^^" -''-' - ''^ diff-nt^foZ 

 It nas a lumed f. The forms moft commonly in ufe are two 



one, htis ,, C, ,, of which the laft is always Hnal, the other two 



Leratinos's definition is nearly the fame ■ " Prr.f..^ i- ^ 



« latun,, cujus tnedio fpatio fpintus ttt etdrca te^ ^^ ''Z ^''""^^ '' ^^- 



pronounced, as in fome Englifl, and French word ^ntt" ll 7 "'" '° '^ 



double S. ^Hic ,uide. certe graviter errant et'labn L pTIr Lerc:? '' '^ ' 

 <rw« interjacet duabus vocahbus in una vel diverfi, H'A u T ' ''"°"" 



•' eft in ^,r., vel in Z.. Hebr.oron, eTeo e^p r r''! •' h "^ ^"™ '°""' ''' 

 " l^sec fcrlberefur n,.^A . ■ ■ , P^rapitur . ac perinde pronuntiatur ac fx 



difabihty of pronouncing this letter is called Bt^/Itas Liftin. K ■^■' " 



" founded like ^tLy W,l«ns, p. 369. "^ "^^ " " " "''ruptly 



