476 GREEK INSCRIPTIONS. 



As the following remarks of D'Orville, Valckenaer, and I. Vossius, 

 are omitted in the works which treat of the sound and power of this 

 letter, we may here transcribe them. 



" jEolicum Mud digamma in AFTTON," says D'Orville, speaking of 

 the Delian inscription, " videtur nonnihil favere hodiernce pronunciationi 

 GrcECorum, dtproq, oi<p9evTys." Mis. Obs. vii. 27. — The Bishop of LandafT, 

 in his Hovcb Pelasgicce, considers the sound of the letter to be similar 

 to that of F ; Larcher, Herod, vol. iv. 1. v. 192, says, that the 

 digamma was pronounced sometimes as ou, and sometimes as v. It 

 is impossible to understand how the word ZoFog should approach to 

 Z,o<pog, unless the digamma had the sound of F. " Ad vocem <ro<pog 

 propius accedit Zooc, imprimis si vox JEolico more Laconum scribatur 

 XoFoq." Valck. ad Theoc. 271. 



The Latin infra and infera, according to Vossius, are derived * from 

 ti/Fepa, id est, h spa ; ivFepov id est, eVepw. " Veteres Atticos et complures 

 GrcecicB gentes 2u<rvvTtKug fuisse, et Fepa seu epa dixisse pro epos, satis 

 constat:' (In Catull. 331.) 



Daps of the Roman, according to the same writer, is derived from 

 the loiiq of the Greeks : the iEolians said JaF/f, and in a contracted 

 form faFc, or 5*4. — Id. 203. 



1st Inscrip. 



Line 1. The Boeotian month, Theluthius, should be added to the 

 list in Corsini. F. A. 



Ib. MEINOS is used for MHNO£ ; we find EFIOEISEN for EnOIHSEN 

 in the Sigaean inscription, and AEEIIHI for <5Wr?/ in Test. Dorico. 

 Gruter. ccxix. f 



" * Pro vero, Macedones, Cyprios, et alios Asiae populos h dixisse constat ex Hesy- 

 chio, et aliis grammaticis." — Vossius, 331. 



f On referring to Gruter's Collection, p. 1036, we find an inscription given from the 

 island of Chios. The copy which I made on the spot, enables us to correct some of the 

 errors. Instead of the word AMITAAA read AAMITAAA; and in another line, instead of 

 APT! AE#HBE1 0AAAHN, read APTI A E*HBE1AI2 0AAAGN. 



