AND BYZANTINE GREEK. ^ 69 



the Roman period give us "H(pe<TTo<; for " Hcpata-To^, B6^e<; for Bo^uk, fivpie^ for fj,vpiai<;, 



KCKpvTTTe for KeKpvTrrai, avip for dvr)p, irepi^aikov for irepl^oXov, yavrci) for eavTm, TroXrja? for 

 TToXea?, Tvxeav for Tv^a-iav, fierpo^ for fitjTpot, peTopcK6<i for pT)Topt.KO<;, IjOrjKa for e^Tj/ca, ttXvov 

 for TrXoiOj/, avvKoBoiirjcre for dvoiKoBofiija-e, Karea-Ke'^aa-ev for Karec7K€va<Tev, ZiJ,dpajBo<; for 5'/cta- 

 payBo^, eTTiTja-e for eTrolrjcre, AiovoktIov for Alovvctiov, Uotdiwv for Hvditov, aoriS for auTw,'^'' it 



is not difficult to perceive that the transcriber or stone-cutter spelled these words as Ae 

 pronounced them ; that is, his spelling was philosophical, but his pronunciation was 

 bad, or provincial. 



Of course, dialectic variations in pronunciation do not come under this head ; thus, 

 evepyeTT]'; dpxt; tiJ?, FuKia, are good Boeotic words, corresponding to the Attic evepyerai^, 



V fir 



apxei, TOt?, oiKia. 



§ 47. 

 The Vowels E, H. 



In the Phoenician alphabet E (He) is a consonant corresponding to the English H, 

 or to the rough breathing of the Greeks. In the Greek alphabet it is a vowel ; and 

 there is no evidence that it was ever employed as the representative of the rough 

 breathing. Its classical name is E!."'^ 



When the sound of the diphthong AI could no longer be distinguished from that of 

 E, the schoolmasters found it necessary to designate the latter by the epithet ylriXov, 

 simple; thus, JS •\|rtXoj/.'^' (Compare T, below.) 



"' InSCR. 628 H*E2T02. 1066 A0SE2, MYPIES. 1067 KEKPYUTE. -1716, C ANEP, HEPIBQAON. 2439, 

 c (Add.) HAYTQ, nOAHAS. 4556 TYXEAN. 4763 METP02. 4788 PETOPIK02. 5777 HeHKA. 4712, b 

 UAYON. 4714, C ANYK0A0MH2E. 2015 KATE2KEBA2EN. 6740 ZMAPArA02. 6481 EniH2E. Vol. Ill, 

 p. 1106 A10N0I2I0Y, nOieiQN. Ibid. p. 1120 AOTQ. 



"' CaLLIAS apud AthEN. 10, 79 eeoC yap E 1 ye. PlAT. Cratyl. 393 D Tiv cn-oixiiaiv oia-6a on ovofiara 

 Xiyojiev, dX\' ovk avTO. ra erroip^fia, jiKfjU rerrapav, tov E Koi ToC Y (tat Tov O koi toO Q. In this passage E and 



stand for Et and Ov respectively. Argument, ad II. 5 E i /3aXX« KvBipeiav "Aprjd re TvSeos vl6s. Plut. H, 



384 Xlepl ToC E 2 iv AeX^oij. Ael. HerodIAK. in BekkER. 798. 800 ToCto yap [to I] avyyiveiav riva cx^i Trphs 

 TO E, Ka\ SeUmaiv €K tov t^i/ iKrpavrjcrtv tov I elvai ovojia tov EypdppaTos. In Herodian's time E?was SOUnded 



like *I (see EI, below). Athen. 11, 30. Edst. 507. 1001. 



"' The name E iffiXov is of frequent occurrence in the rules of CnoEROBOscus and of Theognostus. 

 It is found also in Dracp and Moeuis. But as the grammatical work of the former is full of uitei-polations, 

 some of which cannot be traced further back than the thirteenth century, its authority in questions like this is 

 of no weight. As to Moeris, we only know that he lived before the time of Photius ; that is, before the close 

 of the ninth century (PnoT. 157 "Eti 8e Ka\ Moi'piSoj 'ATTiKioTijr). But if it can be shown that he wrote in the 

 second or third century of our era, then the expression E -^iXov occurring in his 'A r t t k t o- t ^ y must 

 be regarded as an interpolation by a later hand. 



