"■iG Mr. Pickerhm: on the Pronunciation 



as fur instance, instead of calling /3, veetahf they called it hatali : 

 forjy, eetuhf they said atali ; for a< [sounded a] they saida^e; for 



a [sounded ee] they said oy^ &c.* As soon as Erasmus heard this 



account^ he wrote his DfaZo^zic on the true proimnciatiou of the Greek 

 and Latin languages^ that he might appear to be the discoverer of 

 this new method^ and offered the work to Fete}\ a printer^ at Alost. 

 in order to have it published ; but the printer declined doing it^ 

 either because he was en^a^ed in other works^ or because he 



could not undertake to publish it so soon as was desired^ and Eras* 

 rnus thcu sent the work to Froheuj at Basle, by whona it was 

 printed and immediately published. Erasmus^ however, having 

 discovered that a trick had been practised upon him^ never after- 

 wards used that pronunciation himself^ nor did he direct his 

 frieiids to adopt it. In proof of these facts, M. Rutgerus used 

 to show^ in Erasmus' own liand-writln;;, a manuscript system of 

 pronunciation drawn up for the use of Damian de Goez^ a Span- 

 iard, which was not at all different from that adopted in all plac- 



r 



es where the language is used, both by the learned and tlie un- 

 learned.^f ^ Erasmus himself (coulinues WetsteinJ h^id no faith 





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ia his own Dialogue. Who then shall require me to believe in it ? 



* The original is — Eos nempe sanare pro B vita^ beta; pro Hita^ eta ; 

 pro ect 00 f AI; pro o^ t, oi et sic in csetetis. 



t " Ipsius Erasmi nianuscriptam, in gratiam Damlani a Goes Hlspaui pro- 



nunciationls formulain" &.c. After the words prominciationis formulam there 

 is, as Havercamp remarks, in the original of Vossius, this parentliesis — " (cujus 

 exemplar adhuc apud me est. J Schedpe autein qua superiora narrantur, nequis 

 ei fidem detraheret hoc modo, teste Vossio, subscnhltur: Henricus Coracope- 

 trieus Cuccensk^ Neomagt. cb b Ixix. pridie Simonis et Judce. Hanc sche- 

 dam, scnptam olim manu H. Coracopetreei, viri egregie docti, habere se profite- 

 tur, isto loco, Vossius.'' 



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