132 ANALOGY of GREEK LETTERS; 



ear *. IHypta, therefore, not only lends its afliftance to the den- 

 tal mutes, in order to form £, but even frequently occupies 

 the place of £, the component mute being rejected. 



II. 2irMA is the only confonant whofe power is employed 

 in the formation of the dative plural of the imparifyllabic 

 declenfion ; and this is done by interpofing it immediately be- 

 fore i of the dative lingular : as, faa^ orator , Dat. Sing. pr,rogt % 

 Dat. Plur. p?iT0g<rt. So ato^af [zoga.x$), ccrvus, D. S. xogctxty 

 D. P. xogccxcri, which is %oga.%r (pXo'f (<pXoy§), flamma, D. S. <px6<yi } 

 D.P. <pAoy<n, which is (pAofr /3^|(/3^), tuj/is ,D.S. (Brj^i,D. P.firi%<n y 

 which is /3jj|<. So alfo <&// (&>V$), oculus, D. S. &>V<, D. P. a»T<n, 

 which is u4u "A^ {"A§a(3c), Arabs, D. S. "Agufa, D. P. "A^<ri, 

 which is "A^a\|/<: »a7jjj?u4/ («ar^X«p?), fcala, D. S. *arjjX«p*-, 

 D. P. %.a,7r{hi<p<riy which is xccTtiXi-^i. Alfo, &«s (^a<r?), epulum, 

 D. S. ^okt), D. P. not dcuro-iy nor £«<£*, but &x«r), becaufe r, 5, 9-, 

 are thrown away before cr. "kupwrciq (xapra^s), lucerna, D. S. Xa^- 

 ra&, D. P. not Aa.pT64$<r<, nor XupCTTU^i, but Xa,{A<zu,<ri. ofivig {lpvfo<f) t 

 D. S. ogwS-/, D. P. not cgwS-<n, nor egjtf^, but ogvuri j". 



III. In 



* It deferves to be remarked, that one of the liquids, viz. », is alfo thrown away be- 

 fore i of the nominative, and reilored again in the genitive. Thus, pixa*, niger, for 

 li.ih<x.*c, t has, in the genitive, ptoxnas- From fome nominatives,, both r and ^ are thrown 

 away, and reilored in the genitive : thus, ytyx% for yiyxtrc, Gen. yiyxw,' and they are again 

 thrown away before <r in the dative plural, which is not yiyatrc-i, but yxyxa. And when, 

 in the prefents of verbs, v and o occur together, they are both thrown away before cu of 

 the future : thus, x,v\U$*i, voluto, *.v\iau, evidently for the fake of a more pleafing found. 

 Vid. Moor Elementa L. Gr. p. 128. 



With refpecl to what Hulewicz aiTerts about the final ?, in nouns of the third declen- 

 fion being changed into d, 5, v, t, in the genitive, as tgi?, lis, Gen. ; f<^?* o^nc, avis, 

 Gen. ogn&>s* pihccc, niger, Gen. (tkhxvoc' x<*P's> gratia, Gen. ^afira?- this arifes from his 

 not having obferved, with Mr Markland, that the full nominatives of thofe words are> 

 "gtk, ogn$s, u&at*s, xtyti' and that 5 is not changed into the above mentioned confonants, 

 but that thefe having been thrown away in the nominative, euphonia cau/a, are reftored 

 in the genitive, where that reafon no longer takes place. See above, p. 130. 



f In the dative plural, » is alfo thrown out, as <nai^,pqjlor, D. S. not/tin, D. P. a-o^ec-i. 

 Other changes are made in. this cafe in certain nouns eupbonice gratia, hut o- is always 

 inferted. 



