

DEAD LANGUAGES. 



nude it their common and univerfal language ; 

 fo that: :he i . TIIS, if we may ufe the ex- 



prt;. ..ge of the fcicnces. 



HI. All that is \vrh:cn in Greek cannot be 



inguage, for 



(i.) The ancient or literal Greek: an adijii- 



j;e, in which are \v. otc ( 



Xenophon, Thucidydes, Deinofthenes, I'lato, 

 Ariilotk, 1) S ,phv>cies, &c. wu-- 



paTerv;- iKige in ail i p ; 



and that will .ih them: , . 



There are, however, icveral idiotns, 01 

 in this tongue, ;rn Mig which, rour ar^ reck- 

 principal, and thefe arc, i. the Attic, which is 

 the moil efteemed , 2. the Ionic-, 3. the ^olic ; 

 dnd 4. the Doric ; whic a kind of ruttic 



dialed, and in whirh are written eclogues, 

 idyls, and o:l\:T paftora'h. \Y 

 fcy the \\;iv, that all thcfe four dialects arc* to be 

 found in Homer, and produce an odd effect in 

 an heroic poem, notwithflanding the univ 

 appr th.^t is given to this po'. j t. The 



is very copious in words, and 

 its ii ous as they rre (imple in 



molt modern Ian ; : r.umbers, 



the llngular, dual, and plural, and many tenfes 

 in its verbs, \sh;ch atlbrd great variety of 



J rtici[)k-s of the 



aoriu ;>retcnt, and of com/ound 



wordj, whic'; ^ , . nunurous in r 



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