of the Greek Language. 



tfi 



43 



by use and familiarity with th 



Need 



be 



that Frenchmen understand each other, and that 

 GreeJcs do the same, no(vvitlistandin2: these ambici 



mark- 



Mod- 



k^ 



doubt, that the Greeks of 



language ? And can there be 



have 



lood 



just the same ease, that their descendants do 



their prffnunciatiou have bee 



& 



been? 



But^ to return to the controversy allud 



ed 



Sucl 



as I have above obser 



was 



pr 



Greek universally adopted in Europe, until the age of Eras 



pi 



3 



ated a new or ^Pre- 



formed 



The occasion of his introducing this reform^ as it was called 



certaiuly 



one of the most singular occurrences in the histoij of 

 literature; hut, singular as it may appear, it rests upon testimony 

 hitherto unirapeached ; and the biographers of Erasmus, as well 

 as other writers, who mention the fact, do not attempt directly to 

 controvert it. The anecdote seems to have been first published 

 by Gerard Vossias ; butt shall here give it (in a translation) 

 with the accompanying remarks of John Hodolph JVetstein^ and 



V 



John Michael Langhis ; the latter of whom published it in his 

 Eocercitatiimes Fhilologicce de dijfevcntm hingiiw Grmcorum Ve-^ 

 teris et JVovce stve Bavharo-Griecce. This same account was 

 afterwards republished by Havercanip, by way of preface to \\h 

 edition of the concise but satisfactory treatise of Erasmus Schnidt 

 on the pronunciation of the Greek Language.* 



* Havercaiap, PjUf^ge Scnptorum ^.c. torn. \u p- 626« 



