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priest or priestess said AIMOS. But as I and 01 were merely different modes of 

 expressing the sound I, some wrote AIMOS, and others AOIMOS." The careful 

 reader, however, will observe that a8ea-6ai, to be simfj, covofida dai, to have been 

 called, elprjcr 0a t, , to have been said, and aa-ovrai, they ivill sing, have reference to 

 the sound of the word in question; which shows that AOIMO'Z was readily distin- 

 guished from AIMO^ both in saying and in singing. Had the dispute been about its 

 orthography, Thucydides would have given us yejpdcf>dai,, and jpdyfrovaiv. The nat- 

 ural inference therefore is, that in the time of this author, that is, in the fifth century 

 before Christ, 01 teas not identical tvith I. 



The Greek 01 becomes OE in Latin ; as OtTij, Oeta. Sometimes the Romans 

 changed the I into its corresponding consonant, and then doubled it in pronunciation ; 

 thus, Tpola, Troia, pronounced Tro-iia {Tro-yya)}'- 



According to Trypho, Herodian, and others, the iEolians sometimes resolved this 

 diphthong into its component parts, even when it did not arise from syna;resis. Thus, 

 k6i\o<;, JTpotTo?, otcdi/o?, oiSa.'"^ Now, if 01 has component parts, it cannot be a monoph- 

 thong. It follows, therefore, that it was not pronounced like the simple, and conse- 

 quently indivisible I. 



Herodian maintains that, although the vowel is longer (fuller) than the vowel E, 

 the diphthong EI is longer than the diphthong 01, because EI is composed of two 

 kindred sounds, whereas and 7, being dissimilar sounds, do not coalesce so easily, and 

 consequently, in the diphthong 01, the vowel O does not show all its power.'" From 

 this statement we learn that in the time of this grammarian, that is, in the second 

 century after Christ, the first element of the diphthong 01 was a weak O. 



Phrynichus condemns potBiov, in four syllables ; which shows that, in his time, 

 there was a tendency to pronounce 01 so distinctly as to make two syllables of it. 



The orthographical rules of Theognostus relative to 01 conclusively show that in his 

 time (eighth century) it was sounded exactly like T.'" 



*"^ Priscian. 1, 53 OE est quando per diaeresin profertur in Graccis nominibus et Graecam servat 

 seripturam. Pro euini et / ponitur, quae tamen, sicut supradictuin est, locum obtinet duplicis consonantis, 

 ut Troia pro Tpola. See also Id. De XII versibus Aen. 33. 



"^ Tkyi-ho. § 15. Ael. Hekodian. in Ceaher. Vol. 4, p. 416. Id. He pi Movrj p. Ac ^ . p. 24. 



1'* Ael. Hkeodian. in Bekker. 798. 



W5 TheOGNOST. Can. Pr Uacm Xc^ij i< T^f BY o-uWa^rjs apxap-evr} 8ia toO Y tjfiXov ypacfxTat ■ ^v66s, /Svfo'r 



■miKVos avvCTos, ^i^ava Sctriz/ifiWai to ^oiKia 17 Sepdiraiva, /3oiKfi ya/iijo-Ket, Bo//3i; .... Sid Ttjs 01 Si(fi86yyov 



yparj)6p.£va, Ecerij word beginning with the sgllaUe B Y is written loith a Y, as 'QvBos, fiv^os .... ^i^ava .... 

 It is to be observed that fioixia, .... /SoiKti, .... Bot'/Si; .... are icritten with the diphtliong 01. 



