476 GREEK INSCRIPTIONS. 



As the tbllowitig remarks of D'Orville, Valckenaer, and I. Vossius, 

 are omitted in the works which treat of the sound and power of this 

 letter, we may here transcribe them. 



" ^^olicutn illud digamma in AFTTON," says D'Orville, speaking of 

 the Delian inscription, " videturnonnihilfavere hodiern^ pronunciationi 

 GrcBCorum, ci(f)Tog, oi(pdevTr,i" Mis. Obs. vii. 27. — The Bishop of LandaflP, 

 in his Ho7'ce Pelasgicce, considers the sound of the letter to be similar 

 to that of F ; Larcher, Herod, vol. iv. 1. v. 192, says, that the 

 digamma was pronounced sometimes as ou, and sometimes as v. It 

 is impossible to understand how the word EoFo? should approach to 

 I.o(poi, unless the digamma had the sound of F. " Ad vocem (ro<pog 

 propius accedit 1.0 0^, imprimis si vox jEoUco more Laconum scribal ur 

 LoFog." Valck. ad Theoc. 271. 



The Latin infra and infera, according to Vossius, are derived* from 

 IvFspa, id est, \v £pa ; I'j/Fepov id est, eve^ov. " Veteres Atticos et complures 

 Grcecice gentes J^aTui/n-^aj fuisse, et Fepa seu £p« dixisse pro 'i^x, satis 

 constat" (In Catull. 331.) 



Daps of the Roman, according to the same writer, is derived from 

 the ^a'jf of the Greeks : the ^olians said SxFic, and in a contracted 

 form ^«Ff, or Ul. — ld. 203. 



1st Inscrip. 



Line L The Boeotian month, Theluthius, should be added to the 

 list in Corsini. F. A. 



lb. MEINOE is used for MHNO£ ; we find EnOEISEN for EnOIHSEN 

 in the Sigsean inscription, and AEEIIHI for Sevrv in Test. Dorico. 

 Gruter. ccxix. t 



" * Pro Iv vero, Macedones, Cyprios, et alios Asiae populos Jv dixisse constat ex Hesy- 

 chio, ct aliis grammaticis." — Vossius, 331. 



-|- On referring to Gruler's Collection, p. 1036, we find an inscription given from the 

 island of Chios. The copy which I made on the spot, enables us to correct some of the 

 errors. Instead of the word AMFIAAA read AAMIIAAA; and in another line, instead of 

 APTl AE <1>HBE1 ©AAAON, read APTI A E*HBE1AI2 ©AAAiiN. 



