S62 



Mr, dickering on the Pronunciation 



W rendered bj /S qy ou: 



BaeriyyTOVf 



B<x 



X 



^tyyrcv. 



OyaXX/a, 



va. 



Washington 



Wiscasset 



Wilmington 



Wales 



Wilna 



'OvscTS^pl^d or Bare^^og^, Waterford, etc 



But the most valuable and interesting monuments of antiquity, 



relating to the subject now under 



consideration, are the Greek 

 Versions of the Roman Law, and the Greelc Commentaries upon 

 it. In those Versions and Commentaries, we do not merely find 

 a few scattered proper names of Romans, written in Greelc, as is 

 the case in the small number of Greek historians, that have come 

 down to our times ; but in every page we meet with technical and 

 other words of the Roman Law, which, as they could not be well 

 translated, were adopted, almost in their native TmHu form, and 

 only written in Greek characters. Now, although these Ver- 

 sions will not be esteemed of so high authority, as the writings of 

 the Augustan age, yet, when we find in them a great weight of ev- 

 idence, proving, that the pronunciation of Greek has remained uu- 

 changed from the age of Justinian to the present time, (a period of 



thirteen 



not readily believ 



that 



any 



material change could have taken place in the comparatively s 

 period of the/ue preceding centuries ; which would carry us back 



A 



D 



^^ 



I shall cite only a fe 



the 



letter Beta 



In some parts of the Code, the Emperor T 



called in Greek BaXi^nw^fvo^, while in others, hi 



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