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might be amended; yet without prefuming to offer 
any thing of my own, as a perfect model for imita- 
tation; but only as hints, which others may improve 
upon. 
SECTION I. 
A SIMPLE letter, or element, is thus concifely 
diftinguifhed, in the following words from Dioge- 
nes Laertius: reid dé Aéyelar td Yyedpuer 6 Te 
Kapanlye, TO comyaov, ual Td dvoue, dciov at: © This 
includes 
+ In Zenonem. Lib. vil. page 47t. Edit. Hen. Steph. I 
have here ventured to alter this paflage, which, in the above 
édition, is printed, 0, Te segeulye re corméiov ual Td 
Gvope. where 0 yupunlyg Ts Corxése, thes joined, fignifics 
only one ,thing, that is, the form of the letter; Td dvowsz 
another, which is the technical name of the letter. There- 
fore it feems an error to fay Temas dé Aéyelai, when it 
appears only dimAy AéyeoSai, The error might have 
eafily originated with fome tranfcriber, who having 
miftaken the ¥ for an U, might have changed the accent 
and omitted the comma after LAPLKT NO» 
Iam aware that this may be proceeding too far; never- 
thelefs it is-true, what an eminent writer afferts, that 
U 2 nothing, 
