30 PROFESSOR BLACKIE ON THE 
in classical Greek, but it has extended its sphere in the modern dialect so as to 
produce some new and sonorous terminations. How beautiful, for instance, 
are the diminutives in ovAa, as— 
paxovra, for payn. 
pravovia, 5» avn. 
avyovva,, yy avy. 
dwvovra, 5» Povn. 
TepouKovAa, 5) TepOtKLov. 
Tahaua K\noovda, ,, madaia exk\ynota. 
Kapoov\a, » Kapola. 
hadovra, »» AdAnpa. 
Bpvcovda, », Bpvors. 
No man with an ear will deny that in these cases,—and they are abundant 
enough to give a marked character to the modern dialect,—the classical type of 
the word has been corrupted into a decided improvement. A similar euphony 
strikes the ear in the words with the less common termination ovéa, as in 
apkovoa and xahiaxovda. The same favourite diphthong appears in Bpovrovve 
for Bpovraa, in Covve for Cao, and others of the same kind, which may be picked 
out of the Klephtic ballads. The ranks of the same favourite diphthong are 
further swelled by desertions from the ancient v, as in 
govokova, from dvcKow. 
KOVOOUVLOY, 4, KW@OWD. 
, a= 
Bpovxila, »  Bpvxo. 
jp / 
oKkovla, » oKvlo. 
aKovBarov, ,, okvPador, 
and others. 
Nor is the sonorous sound of a, according to Dionysius the most musical 
of the vowels, but which the English in many cases degrade into the feeble 
rank of » (Scotch), less prominent in the modern than in the ancient dialect. 
On the contrary, many beautiful new substantive forms are used with a marked 
preference to which this rich vowel gives the key-note, as in 
onpao., for onpetov. 
OKOTAOL, ») OKOTOS. 
TOTAL, »» TOTALS. 
evpoppdoa, ,, evpmopdud. 
VOOTYLAOA, ,, VOOTULOTYS. 
ppovnudda, ,, ppovnpa. 
With the troop of favourite diminutives in dp: and axu. 

