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In the lexicon of Suidas this diphthong is placed between T and T ; which shoAA's 

 that the modern Greek pronunciation of T and 01 cannot be referred even to the tenth 

 century of our era. Had T and 01 been each sounded like I (as they are in modern 

 Greek), this author would have put them in the immediate vicinity of I, just where 

 we find H and EL 



§ 55. 



The Diphthong OT. 



The Komans represented the diphthong OT by long U ; as fiovaa, musa, 'ETrtKovpo<;, 

 Epicurus. Terentianus Maurus, however, intimates that U was not absolutely the same 

 as OT}''^ On the other hand, the Greeks wrote T or OT for the Eoman vowel U ; as 

 Sulla, XvWa<;, Tullius, Tv\\io<;, Lucius, AovKio^. 



In the Greek alphabet the name of every letter begins with the sound of that letter.'." 

 If we apply this rule to O u , the name of O, we must admit that, in the dijihthong 

 or, the first letter was distinctly heard. 



Sextus says that OT represented a simple sound i^eculiar to itself ; that is, it was a 

 monophthong.^"' 



§ 56. 



The Diphthong TI. 



The Romans represented TI by YI ; as "Apfrviai, Harpyiae ; from which it is 

 inferred that the T was audible. 



Herodian's rule with regard to TI is that both its vowels should be uttered in such 

 a manner as to form but one syllable ; '" which shows that it had two elementary 

 sounds. 



According to Terentianus Maurus TI was like the Latin UI in cui, the dative of 

 quis, qui}'^ 



The dialectic form fMovtai for fivla t,, from fu-via, jlxf, shows that the T retained 

 its own sound.'^" 



"* Terentian. Maxirus, 428 seq. Graeca diplithongos sed OY litteris nostris vacat ; Sola vocalis quod U 

 complet hunc saXis sonum. Peiscian. 1, 36. 



^" In the time of Herodian, E?, the name of E, was sounded like I ; an exception to the rule. Ael. Heeo- 

 DiAN. in BeivKer. 798. « 



^'^ Ael. Herodian. in Cramer. Vol. 3, p. 251 nX^j/i^ifAoCo-iK o! hiaipovvm rb fiila, iios, rpia-iWa^ov 



8ei yap dfKJMTepa crvvmpelv \6ya ToiovTa on to I fiera tov Y TaTTofievov ov&iiroTe diaipelrai oiSe ^apl^fTai kot airo, 

 dXXa TO Y a-vveKCpavflTm Koi ylverai fiia 8i(j>doyyos fj YI. 



'" Terentian. Maukus, 768 vii'ia cum dicunt et vlas tale quid cui sonet. 



*'" HeS. Mouiat, (7Ka>Xr)K(s ol ytvofuvoi, iv Tois Kpka(Tiv. 



