70 A GLOSSARY OF LATER 



The Phoenician H (Hheth) is a guttural rough breathing. In the early Greek 

 alphabets it represented the common rough breathing (H). In the course of time it 

 was changed into a vowel equivalent to loti^ E. 



With regard to its pronunciation, Plato, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Herodian 

 represent it as differing from I.'^'-' Terentianus Maurus and Sextus distinctly state 

 that E and H differ from each other in time, hut not in kind.^^ 



In the rules of Chceroboscus and of Theognostus H is treated as if it had the same 

 sound with I. Thus, when the former tells us that, in dXiTi^pt,o<}, AI is written with an 

 I, and TH with an H, we are to infer that in his time there was no difference in pro- 

 nunciation between H and I.^^^ 



In the lexicon of Suidas words beginning with H are placed immediately after 0, 

 simply because in the time of this author (eleventh century) H was pronounced like I. 



In modem Greek H is pronounced like I. 



§ 48. 



The Vowels 0, n. 



The Phoenician O [Ayin) is a consonant. The Greeks converted it into a vowel. 

 I The classical name of the Greek is Ov?^^ 



^*' Plat. Cratyl. 418 C Of TroXaiol oj ^fiircpoi to lata Kai TO SeXra ev fid\a ixpmvro, (cat ov^ rJKKrra al yvvalKes, 

 aiTTep uaXioTa r^v dp^aiav <l>o>v7ju (ra)^oua"i. NOv fie avr't pkv toO icoTa ^ et 17 r/ra p^Taarp^^ovtriv, aim. 6e rov SeAra 

 /■^Ta, a)S hr] fieydk(mpeni(TTefia ovra. EPM. IIqjs 8^. 2Q. Olov ol fiiv dpxaioraTOi ipipav ttjv rjiifpav tKoKovv, 01 df 

 euipav, 01 8e vvv fipipav. 426 E Tu S' av I [(^aiVerai fioi KaTaKcxpijiTdai 6 to duopara TiBipevotj npbs to XcTrra TTavra, 

 a Sri udXiara 8ta iravro)!' lot av, Aia ravra to tcvai Kal to iecrdai 8ia Tov I aTropupuTai. 427 C To 8' av A to peydXm 

 (iTreSaKf, Ka\ to /iijKet to H, on pcyaka to ypappara. In the first of these passages, (pavrjv, sound, and iKaXovv, 



they called, relate to the pronunciation and not to the spelling of ripe pa; which shows that the first syllable of 

 this word differed in sound from the corresponding syllable of Ipepa. Dion. Hal. De Composit. 14 AevTepov 

 8e TO H, oTt Kara nepl t^v ^da-iu t^j ■yXcio-tn/s £pfi8fi tov ^x"" aKokovBov, aXV oiic ava, Ka\ perpias avoiyopivov [toC 

 o-TouoTof]. But I is described by this author as follows : "Eo-xotow 8e Trdvrav to I • irtpi tovs oSovras tc yap f/ Kp6- 

 TTja-is TOV TTvevpaTos ylviTai, piKpov avoiyopivov Tov (TTopaTos Ka\ ovK irrCKapirpwoVTUiv tUv x^'Acav tov rjxov. Ael. 

 Herodian. in CkAJIER. Vol. 3, p. 248, 20 "En apapTavovcnv ol \iyovTes vfjO-T-r) s e I p i . Afyeiv ovv biov 

 vrjo-T IS . Here 'KiyovTes, Xe'yciv, Saying, to say, refer to pronunciation. 



15" Teeentian. SLiUE. 450 seq. Litteram nanque E [ypd(j)e Ei] videmus esse ad 'H t a proximam, sicut 

 O [ypa^e oS] et Q videntur esse vicinae sibi. Temporum momenta distant, non soni nativitas. Sext. Adv. 



Gram. 5 'ti.KoKovdr)(m koL to E kuI to H (V uvat (TTOixelov koto ttjv avTijV Svvapiv koivov • f) yap avTrj Sivapts eV ap(f>o- 

 Tepav icTTi. Kai avirraXtv pev to H yivcTai E, ixraOkv 8e to E ylverai H. 



151 Cramer. Vol. 2. 1, p. 169. 



152 CALLLis apud Athen. 10, 79. Plat. Cratyl. 393 D. Argument, ad II. 15 Ov E.povldrjs Kf^o'XeoTo 

 no(r€ibia>vi Ka\ 'Hpr,. QuiNTiLiAN. 1, 7, 11. Plut. H, 513 A. Athen. 10, 81. 11, 30. EusT. 507. 1001. 



