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Mr. Pickering on the Pronunciation 



century. Eiistathius (as quoted by the writers in the controver- 

 sy) after citing the following line from Homer j 



remavl<s, that "ir/^go-^s and TeukaGai though they differ in 



their 



htters are exactly alike in sound ;" and the same is the case, as 



this 



OMffyi KEN 02 



I 



? 



Xg¥ r^oTov KAIN02 i "for here nsvog and xaivlg have the same 

 sound.^' Several other passages might be adduced from Greek 



s> 



h 



find any, however, wliich carry us back 



first 



I do 



;ury ; 



contrary 



find 



any remarks of these writers, 



hich give the least intimation, that any change had taken pi 



of 



In the case of this diphthong, however, as in that of the letter 

 we have evidence of this pronunciation of sufficiently high an- 



ity, in the Oriental 



S'^'^B 



Schmidt 



Syriac Version of the New Testament, not only the Greek s, but 

 the diphthong a/j in those Greek words which are retained in the 

 version, are expressed both by tsere and segol; as, Ki(pa,'Kc&toy, 



.<L 



p.<'^P J scctiffcc^ucc i^npp; ug r^aiTc^^ioVi f^llDl^^ &c.* 



AT. 



The Modern Greeks pronounce this diphthong sometimes 



id sometimes at*, as observed in the Table of the alphabet, 

 gument of greatest antiquity is founded on a remark of C 



The 



'? 



De Divinatione ; where he says, that wh^nMarcus 



Crassus was embarking his army at Brundusium 



} some person 



Schmidt. De pronun. Grsec. p. C38, 



