of the Greek Lans;uas;e, 



she has not in some measure imposed up 



terfeit 



The grarb, indeed, in which 



us 



i 



dby 



has the exterior of antiq 



by coun- 

 »duced to 

 / ; but if 



tnodern 



nal 



tely examine this personage, we shall discover that 



origin, and was introduced into the world by a 



Her parent 



Erasmus ; who, in his Dialogue 01 

 person that dared to decide- how l 



loenix of literature, the great 

 Prommciation, was tlie first 

 • the several letters had de- 



parted from their ancient sounds, and to point out by what means 

 we might get back to the ancient purity. But that sage would 

 never have gone such lengths as he did, had he not been led in- 

 to a snare (and who, that is not more than human, is proof against 

 such things ?) by a trick of his friends ; as will be seen in the fol- 

 lowing narrative, which you shall have in the words of the illus- 

 trious VossiuSf who gives it upon the authority of Henry CoracO' 

 jpetrmm,* ^I heard M, Rutgerus Reschius, (says he,) who was 

 professor of Greek in the Busleiden college and my revered pre- 

 ceptor, relate, that he was in the Liliensian seminary at the same 

 time with Erasmus, who occupied an upper room and himself a 

 lower one ; that Henry Glareanus happened to arrive at Louvain 

 from Paris and was invited to dine in the college ; and when Gla- 



reanus was asked, what news he brought with him, he answered, 

 (which was a story he had made up on the way, because he knew 

 Erasmus to be over-fond of novelties and wonderfully credulous,) 

 that certain native Greeks had arrived in Paris, who were men of 

 great learning, and who used a pronunciation of the Greek Lan- 

 guage entirely diiFerent from tlmt, which prevailed in these parts ; 



* Henry Ravensherg, whovA Vossius calls — ^"viri egiegie doctlj doctisque 

 perfamiharis," See Havercanqrs Sylloge, torn. ii. p. 628. 



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