80 A GLOSSARY OF LATER 



his time, it was a silent letter.'^^ Quintilian speaks of its being silent also in the 

 middle of a word.'®' And in the time of Sextus it was a question whether datives 

 ending in A, H, /2, should be written with an I.'*- Theodosius calls the I of these 

 diphthongs I av e k^wv tjt ov , silent I}^^ 



After the twelfth century, the Greeks adopted the orthography a, tj, a>, merely 

 because they wished to show that they did not pronounce the I ; a mode of writing 

 which gave rise to the expression {/'n'oyey pafj,/j,evov I air a, iota suhscrijttum. In 

 manuscripts written before the thirteenth century, this I, if expressed at all, is put after 

 A, H, fl ; as atSw, TJ;t crocfiiat, twv XijcaTrji. 



We must state here, that the early grammarians, from Herodian downward, use 

 the verb tt po a-y pu(f>w, adscribo, with reference to the I of these diphthongs.'^ 



CONSONANTS. 



§ 58. 



1. In later Greek, the aspirates and $ were sometimes doubled in the middle of a 



word. InsCR. 2169 Kd66ea-av for Kclrdeaav. 1927 Sd(f><f>ov for Sd7r(f)0V. Sec also "A(j}^r), 

 'A^(f>iav6^, ''A<})^Lov, Bd09t,v, KXeoOOi';, in the Glossarj. 



2. In later Greek, Z was sometimes doubled in the middle of a word.''" Inscr. 

 2131 ZaffoO?. 6337. 6462 e^rj'^e. 



ISO SxKAB. 14, 1, 41 IIoAXoi yap X'^P'^ '"'''' I ypdrpovai ray boTiKas, Koi e/t/SaXXoutrt ye to Wos ^vaiKrjv ahlav ovk 

 tXOV. 



iw QuiNTiL. 1, 7, 17 Sicut in Graeeis accidit adjectione i literae, quam non solum dativis casibus in parte 

 ultima adscribunt, sed, quibusdam etiam imponmit, ut in X t; i o- t ^ t , quia etymologia ex divisione in tris 

 syUabas facta desideret eam literam. 



1^^ Sext. Adv. Gram. p. 252 "Orav ^rjTwiKv el rais BoTtKots TrpocrGeriOV to \. 



189 XnEODOS. 978 Ilaaa yeviKTj t(ro(ruXXa/3oi5(ra Trj evBeia ttjv Sotik^w e^^i els I aveK(j)ainjTOv \fiyovcrav pera Toij 

 <l>atvfjeiTos TTJs evdeias, 7 peTa pel^ovos avrtdTot^ov, 



^^^ Cramer. Vol. 1. 1, p. 3G0 IlaXa pr]i(j) iv 7Tpol_(r]ypa(pei TO I. Vol. 2. 1, p. 371 Zatov ylverai Trapa to 

 ^rjv, npoaypa(j)eTai Se to I. Edst. 174 To de r; 6 e p t s i (t T L hlx"- TTpouypa^rjs Tou I TiSeacn. lOOG, 15 E i TT i; t cr i y 

 . . . . ois ev rfi TTapaKr]yov(Tri to I upoayiypifiTTai. 1251, 24 "hXKrp .... iTpoayeypappevov e^ei to I. QuiNTILIAN 

 uses adscribo (see note 187). 



1'* Velius Longus, p. 2217 Denique, si quis secundum naturam vult excutere banc literam, id est Z, 

 inveniet duplicem non esse, si modo illam aure sinceriore exploraverit. Nam et simiiliciter scripta aliter 

 sonai-e potest, aliter geminata ; quod omnino duplici literae non accidit, ne geminetur. 



On the other hand, Scaurus denies that it is a simple consonant. Scatjkus, p. 2257 Nee minus falluntur 

 qui Mezentium per duo Z scribunt, ignorantes duplicem literam non debere geminari : quamquam qiudam 

 colligant duplicem non esse. 



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