of the Greek Lan^uasre. 



^i 



ke 



sound but differc 



ijication j and as ex 



pies he gives these lines of Homer, among others, relating; to 



the letter 



V « 



Tov xai vredd EKTocv ^axci^sg ^so) oyJs r 'i^n(ra,v. 



Iliad. A. 40G 



;^oXoj ^g i^iv a,y§ios "HPEI 



HPH ^ 6VX, i^ads a-r^^oc xj^y^ov* 



Iliad, /i. 23, 24. 



*IPI ^ia-t rig ytx,^ erg ^iu» Ifioi oiyyikm ?xe ; 



Iliad. 2. 1 82, 1 84 



^ 



Upon which last example he particularly remarks, that the 

 Poet has here placed two words near each other, which form the 

 most perfect kind of parecJiesis ; which is, when the words arc ex- 



!tly 

 ipJiy 



sound, but dissimilar in signijicatian and orth 



E.yy 



'dn 



■evz^irtvs 



u,sv ij^ovtrav ravro^, avou^otOTijTa 



I 



BY^ovca 



\ tf 



m- 



In another instance {Iliad. 0. 143^ cited by VelastusJ he 

 uses even more emphatic language ; for after citing these lines. 



he remarks, that the poet describes Iris paraphrastically, as the 

 Tmessenger of the gods^ lest the perfect similarity of sound in ^^ni 



and l^ig should mislead one, and Jimo should be supposed to have 

 been called for by Juno herself. 



* Eustath. p. 240, edit, Florent. 1730. 



