RUINS OF ORCHOxMENUS. 201 
The Reader may recollect, that this inscription chap. 
is in Meletius Geography ; but a comparison of ' 
the present copy with his, will shew that the 
Greek Archbishop has omitted the digamma, and 
thereby deprived it of its archaic character. 
Some observations made upon it by Mr. JValpole 
are subjoined in a Note '. The recurrence of 
El, for H, and for Al, as in 0EIBEIO2, 
A0ANEIO2; and of A, for H, in this latter 
word, will not escape the erudite reader. Con- 
cerning the digamma, occurring not less than six 
times in this inscription, the author owes it to 
(i) " JAne 9. 'Tciira.i.— We find WcTiixi in Montfaucon Diar. Italiruni, 
p. 425. and tSttia. for tuw/a in the jEolic Inscription 
quoted by Caylus, Recueil d'Ant. 2. 
" 11. PAVAFtAOX. — The digamma was placed sometimes 
in the commencement of a word, whether it be;;an 
with a lenis or aspirate, as in Voixlav, Fava|, Fanrif, 
and many others; sometimes in the middle, as in 
uVuTav, in the Delian Inscription ; and liytviun \n th^ 
Sif^ean, where the v is written instead of it. {Ser 
( hislmll ad Sig. Mar. and Lanzi.) In the Heraclean 
Tables we have this form, Ce^, for It,, C/S/af, for 'l%i»;. 
The affinity between the sigtna and digamma is shewn 
ill many instances". The ;Eolians, says Salmasius, (rfe 
Re Hel/. p. 431.) ' partim Kvfupafuy dicebant. partini 
Nuj[t^a»-<wv.' Hence the Latins wrote sex from the 
Greek s?. In parts of Greece, says Priscian, they sar 
muha for musa. In the Lacedamonian dialect they 
pronounced, without any aspiration, ^aa fiaa, for ram 
fiaufa. [Sec Lanzi on the Tuscan Language.)" 
Walpole's MS. JVole. 
