^ Particularly of the LE fTE i? 2 I F M A. 131 



comes X£/3>jj, lebes, but r remains before in the genitive, Xs/S)jro?* 

 'Ka^'xa.l';, or 'kk^.trcc^, by rejeding the S" before ?, becomes Xa^- 

 •xag, lampas^ in the genitive Xa.f/,7ra.Sos- o^vi^g, or o^k^, by rejecting 

 6 before g, becomes ogng, avis, in the genitive o^n^og *. Farther, 

 it may be inferred, that 1^ is equivalent at lead to tg, from vsrhat 

 happens in the formation of the fecond future of fuch verbs as 

 o^u. For as rv^prra hath in the fecond future rv^a, by throwing 

 out the T, which is the latter of the two confonants, the former 

 being the charaderiftic of the tenfe ; fo o^m (o5<r<y) hath o^ai, by 

 throwing out the a; which is the latter of the two component 

 confonants in ^, the ^ being properly the charadleriftic of the 

 tenfe. In the fame manner, (pgoc^m ((pg'a^<r<w) hath (p^alu, and 

 'i^a {idtrca) hath \iu. But that ^ was confidered by the Greek 

 writers as a double confonant, may be clearly evinced from this, 

 that, like the other two, | and •4', it obliges a vowel immedi- 

 ately preceding it, though naturally fhort, to be long by pofi- 

 tion, as is well known to all who have the fmalleft acquaintance 

 with Greek profody. It may be concluded then, that ^ is not 

 only a double confonant f , but is equivalent either to rg, or ^j, 

 or "hg, though the general pradice of the Greek writers was to 

 rejedl r, h, ^ immediately before o-, or to fet down <r in moft 

 cafes where the general analogy requires ^, and this, it fhould 

 feem, in order to produce a found more pleafing to the 



R 2 ear. 



* Sometimes t is thrown out betwixt x and ?, after which the x? coming together muft 

 make ?• thus, Sibxt;, a»««5, a»Jt|, rex, Gen. Sivxxic',, where the ? is refolved into xf, and 

 the T is reftored. See a moft ingenious Diflertation, afcribed to the late learned Mr 

 Jer. Markland, entitled, De Gracorum ^inta Declinatiotie Impari/yllabicd , et indefor- 

 mala Latinorum Tenia, ^cejlio Grammatica. Extat cum Editione alter^ Euripidis Dra- 

 matis Supplktum Mulierum, quam Londini excudebat doftus typographus GuL. Bowser, 

 nuper defunftus, ejulque difcipulus J. Nichols. i775' 



+ The other arguments adduced by Hulewicz. to prove that f is not a double confo- 

 nant, do not feem to have any weight. Vid, Injlitut. Gram, Gr. ubtfupra. 



