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Mr. Pickering on the Pronunciation 



EI. 



The arguments in support of the Modern Greek pronunciation 

 of this diphthong appear to be unaasw euoble. Inileed some of 

 the writers on the Erasmiaii side concede the point. Without 

 repeating the remarks of Eusfathius and other writers^ who may 

 be thought not sufficiently ancient^ I will only add to the obser- 

 vations made under some of the preceding letters^ the follow- 

 ing, from the second volume of the HercvJanean MSS. which, 

 at the same time, contains an important remark respecting the 



accentuation of words. After 



g the word eu.<7rod 



dof 



says 



a 



Quod autem pro 



buas, qui ssepe 



ptum habeas g/, id somnolento callig 

 i secus ac alii horum volumlnum ex 



pt 



ut jamdudum observavimus, hujusmodi litterarum Bvu>,Xu'y)jv fa- 

 cit. Et ne longius abscedas, mox hac ipsa columna v. 14., aopia-- 

 TSiug pro ao^ia-Tiag descriptum invenies. Id autem argumento 

 nobis esse debet, non modo diphthongum u affinem sono fuisse ra 

 /, sed etiam hujusmodi voces penultiraa longa solitas 



fuisse ef. 



ferri."* 



In the ancient Greelc Inscriptions published by Dr. Clarke 



his Jlccoiint of the Greek Marbles 



fi 



evidence of the 



same kind respecting the u : Thus, p. 5, TEIMO0EO2 AA 



2EI05 XAIPE TEIMO0EO2 



Acain 



& 



; 



p. 44. H BOTAH 



KAI O AHM02 ETEIMH2AN TITON 



<^ 



* EpicuT. lib. si, col. vi. p, 50. 



