146 ANA LOGY of GREEK LETTERSj 



" of them, fo as, for iaftance, to call /orfy. xirrct^axovTa, inftead 



" of Tiir(rot.^a.>to\)Ta, I imagined it to be a com^mon praiflice among 



*' the letters who were there educated together. And even 



" while he claimed a right to force to day into his train by the 



" name of rtif^i^ov inftead of o-TifAi^ov, and ufed the fame freedom 



" with other words of that kind, as if they had been his own 



** property, I tolerated what I heard with fome degree of pa- 



*' tience, and was not very violently provoked upon the occa- 



" fion. But when, after beginning in this manner, he had the 



" impudence to metamorphofe the word fignifying ^eel fi"om 



" KK<r(riri^ov into stctrrlri^ov^ and to call cobler's leather Ka,rrujji.x 



" inftead of KOLo-a-vjAa, and pitch mrrce. in place of via-ffa; and, 



" in Ihort, having divefted h'mfelf of all fenfe of Ihame, to 



" infult the name of ^eeti, by pronouncing that fiaa-iXirTu, 



'* which ought to have been (SuiriXKra-a., I got into a moft furi- 



'* Qus paroxyfm of rage, being apprehenfive that fome one, in 



" procefs of time, might venture to fay rv»u inftead of a-Cicci, 



" and fo not leave me fo much as a fingle Jig.- — I befeech 



" you, in the name of Jove ! to bear with this juft indigna- 



" tion, when you refledt that my fpirit is fo much depreffed, 



" and that I have none who are ready to help me- j for when 



" the queftion is about depriving me of words that have been 



" my wonted and familiar companions, furely no trivial and 



" vulgar objeds are at ftake. Having torn my prattling x/Va-a, 



" my favourite magpie, as it were out of my bofom, he calls it 



" his ttiri'a, and, in defiance of the command of Aristar- 



" CHUS, he hath feizedon nty ringdove, which' he calls (parTK, 



" on my ducks, ftyling them, vijrra/, and my ou/e/s, to which he 



** gives the odious name of scoTnitpot. He hath borne off whole 



'* hive* ofi my bees, calling them jj^iKiTTUi inftead of (/.iXioKrui. 



" Nay, having made an incurfion into the Attic territory, he 



" hath even carried away, in the moft outragious manner, the 



" region of bees, mount Hymettus itfelf, and that too before 



** your own eyes and thofe of the other fyllables. But why 



" do 



