i 4 6 ANALOGY of GREEK LETTERSj 



" of them, fo as, for inftance, to call forty. Terra.ga,Kovrcc infteact 

 " of rzovaguKovrtt,, I imagined it to be a common practice among 

 " the letters who were there educated together. And even 

 " while he claimed a right to force to day into his train by the 

 " name of ryptgov inftead of c-fiptgov, and ufed the fame freedom 

 " with other words of that kind, as if they had been his own 

 *': property, I tolerated what I heard with fome degree of pa- 

 tience, and was not very violently provoked upon the occa- 

 fion. But when, after beginning in this manner, he had the 

 impudence to metamorphofe the word fignifying Jleel from 

 KCHrirlrigov into xctrririgovy and to call cobler-s leather xctrrupu 

 inftead of Kcctrtrv^a, and pitch Kirrct in place of ir'nrera', and, 

 in mart, having divefted himfelf of all fenfe of fhame, to 

 infult the name of ^ueen, by pronouncing that ficurihtrTu 

 which ought to have been /3a<r/X;<r<ro, I got into a moft furi- 

 ous paroxyfm of rage, being apprehenfive that fome one, in 

 procefs of time, might venture to fay tvku inftead of <rvx.a, 

 and fo not leave me fo much as a fingle fig*-— I befeech 

 you, in the name of Jove ! to bear with this juft indigna- 

 " tion, when you reflect that my fpirit is fo much depreffed, 

 !t and that I have none who are ready to help me ; for when 

 " the queftion is about depriving me of words that have been 

 " my wonted and familiar companions, furely no trivial and 

 u vulgar objects are at flake. Having torn my prattling */Wa, 

 " my favourite magpie, as it were out of my bofom, he calls it 

 " his xirra,, and, in defiance of the command of Arista r- 

 " chus, he hath feized on my ringdove, which- he calls <pa<rroi, 

 " on my ducks , ftyling them rnrrcu, and my oufels, to which he 

 w gives the odious name of xorrtxpot. He hath borne off whole 

 " hives o£ my bees, calling them ^tkirrui inftead of {teX'uro-ai. 

 " Nay, having made an incurfion into the Attic territory, he 

 hath even carried away, in the moft outragious manner, the 

 region, of bees, mount Hymettus itfelf, and that too before 

 your own eyes and thofe of the other fyllables. But why 



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