202 ' llUiNS OF ORCHOMENUS. 
CHAP, the pious memory of his most learned grand- 
. ^i . father ', to insert here a few remarks published 
by him upon this subject half a century ago, 
which have been often borrowed, without any 
acknowledgment being made of their author. 
observa- " Thc SaxoTis uscd the digamma in the beginning 
jEoiiayi and middle of the words, just as the JEolian 
ignmmu. Q^^^j^^ 9 ^gg(j j^^ ^j^Q spread as far as the sides 
of the Hellespont, and lived nearest to their 
Saxon ancestors, the Thracians. Thus we have 
(1) See the Life of ff^illiam Clarke, M.A. Residentiary of Chichester, 
in the Biographia BrUannica. 
(2) Note by the author of the Extract above cited, on the words 
" kalian Greeks."] " In pronouncing both Greek and Latin, the 
sound of the digamma was familiar and well known. The iEolians 
expressed this sound by a particular character, and so possibly might 
the Greeks : but this does not seem sufficiently evinced ; for the 
Antients speak of the digamma as peculiar to the i^olians. Thus 
Terentianus •" 
' Nominum multa inuhoata Uteris vocalibus 
JEolicus usus reformat, et digammon praeficJt.' 
" The different powers of it were these : It was inserted between two 
vowels in the middle of words, or before a vowel at the beginning, 
with the sound of a ^ consonant. Or its more peculiar property was, 
expressing the sound of the Greek ov, or our fV. The Romans had 
from the beginning the letter V, which fully answered the first of 
these purposes ; and therefore, when the Emperor Claudius intro- 
duced the inverted digamma to supply what was wanting in their 
alphabet, it could only be intended to express this last sound. So 
Quintilian explains it : 'In his servus et vulgus ,^olicum digamma 
desideratur ;' 
