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Mr. Fickerins: on the Pronunciation 



& 



But it is needless to multiply examples of th 



kind 



of words at the end 



la^s and some other Lexicons 



and I 



Scapu- 



Henrj 



) 



US b 



John Philop 

 L to the se^ 



> 



enth 



tupy, aad the other, by Ammonius. to the fourth century ; from 



last work, we may proceed still farther back^ by 



of 



it ' 



-»p 



a writer there cited 



; 



Didy 



think 



cessary 



the differelice 



igniiicatlon bet 



the 



^ysTv and Xirov^ysTv j which, if they had been 



of 



would 



words^ 



so unlike in sounds as the Erasmian pronunci^ 



make them, would not have been classed with th 

 Collection. 



The argument founded on translations of Roman names into 

 Greek is also applied in the case of the ;?, as well as of the other 

 letters ; and it is observed, that Bionysius of Halicamassus, and 

 other Greek writers, rendered the Roman i by the ti of their own 

 language. But on the other hand, the Boman writers frequently 



rendered the Greek t] by their 



Again, it may be replied 



> 



Gellius observes) the ancient Romans used e and i indif- 



Quintilian informs us of the same fact ; and, by way 



of example, he remarks, that the 



the Latin word Here has th 



ear cannot plainly distinguish 



that 



d of / or of £ ,• and 



the works of many authors he found sibe and quase for 



sihi and quasi 



But the strongest argument from 



derived from 



Oriental Languages, because of their antiquity and permanency 



Velaatus alludes to this, but 



himself with 



ferring the 



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