of the Greek Language, 



SJ87 



ET. 



There does not appear to be any direct evidence in the Greek 

 writers of very ancient date, proving the sound of this diphthong 

 to have been ev or ef, as the Modern Greeks pronounce it. If, 

 however, there is reason to believe that au was pronounced av or 

 afy the argument from analogy will apply with much force* But 

 though we find nothing decisive in the Greek writers^ yet we 



have evidence in this case also from the 



tal 



for^ according to Krasmns Schmidt^ in the Syriac Version 

 is rendered by % of which he gives the followiug instances 



Dp^D*)^ from "EyTu;:^^oj» Acts xx. 9. 

 i^ntl)^ from 'Evoh'a, Philip, iv. S. 



OI. 



The diphthong oi is pronounced by the Modern Greeks exactly 

 like oe in some English words derived from the Greek, or like 



The antiquity of 



Most of 



the E 



ersy 



to have 



been of opinion, that the Greeks pronounced it just as oi is pro- 

 nounced in the French lansjuage. The principal reason for this 





opinion was, the general one mentioned above; that a diphthon 

 must have two sounds; an hypothesis, rt^hich is falsified by what 



own hanguage. 



every one of those writers must have found in his 

 That this diphthong has for many centuries had the sound of our 

 ce, is proved by the same kind of evidence as above adduced in 

 the case of some of the other diphthongs ; that is, the mistakes of 



the transcribers of manuscripts ; for they constantly substitute th« 



