of the Greek Language. 



«) 



67 



tlscripts, which contains a part of Epicurus, The note is to be 

 found at p. 23, where tlie word trvvx^iireig occurs, written incor- 



ctly with a i> instead 



reader 



It will be ob 



the 



on 



•1 n* 





> to his 



pt has 



here cwzgitrug, with N instead of V ; which is to be ascribed on- 

 ly to the inattention of the copyist. For you must take care, that 

 you do not adopt the opinion of Stephens, Beza, and others ; 

 (cited by Jo. Simon, ia his Introductio Grrammatico-Critica, 

 sect. S.) who, because they found in a manuscript written in cap. 



itals the words (x,vyi7<,oi;i avKv^n, written as ffvvx^itrug is in this 



place, supposed, that the grammarians, when they directed ya^- 



f^oc to be written for vv before the palatal letters^ were deceived 



by the lengthened figure of the Vf which looked like 



a 



7 



Now 



in these Papyri^ which are written in capitaU, yufi^fictis constant* 



ly written before the palatal letters, (although sometimes the trans- 

 criher erroneously departs from this orthography^} as may be seen 

 in this very volume^ (or rollj where^ at col. ix, r. 13^ you find 



r 



sy^eipovtriv correctly written. In Phiiodetnus de Musica, which 

 we hare published, you will see, that this orthography is constant- 

 observed. Thus, Col. xvii, v. 31, Tvy^uv$tv ; ib. v. 44 <ruy- 



yivf}* Col. xxiv, V. 7> o-vyysvug. Col. xxvii, v. 18, ay^ivoiag. 

 Col. xxxiii, V, 22f muyxutag. Col. xxxviii, v. 32, iyxe)^ei§rjKao'i j 

 but in the same place, the transcriber, nodding, {'ut in Iqngo ope- 

 re, &c.) wrote at v. 38, ffwiKUTUKoiTfiTia'iy, as I have there observed. 

 This rnle of orthography is constantly observed in the other 

 rolls f which we have by us ; and so closely is it followe 1, that 

 sometimes, in the case of two succeeding words, when the last 

 begins with y, and the first should end with v [as in i^iv ycc^) 



