RUINS OF ORCHOMENUS. 20::; 
the initial digamma ' in weather, ivork, iveight, wool, chap. 
whole from oXog ; luorth, worthy, from o^Oog ; luise, ! . 
from the same root as lerrii^i ; wreck, break, from 
pno-a-u: and thus in the middle of words, to 
prevent the coahtion of vowels, as |-cea-pian, to 
see; ha-pian, to look on: hy-punj, deceit; pcea- 
pejie, a scoffer T 
The next inscription is twofold ; because it 
relates not only to the Charitesia, but also to the 
games called 'OMOAftTA, solemnized in honour Homohta. 
desideratur:' i.e. to shew they were jironounced f«WMS, and wulgus. 
But be this as it will ; the Saxous certainly borrowed the form, as well 
as the /></«;«• of their p from the iEolians ; the two transverse 
strokes, which were divided in the iEoliaii digamma p, being joined 
together in theirs. By this means they possessed a letter which the 
Romans wanted, and which all the lang;uages more innnediately 
derived from the Latin, as the French, Spanish, and Italian, have 
not. This letter, therefore, which has been sometimes objected to, 
as a mark of barbarism in the Teutonic language, is really a proof of 
its primitive and high original." 
Clarke's Connexion of Coins, c. 2. p. 42. Lond. 1767. Note [rf.] 
(3) Note by tlie same author, upon the words " initial digamma."^ 
" Upton's remarks upon Shakespeare, p. 207. Instead of the 
digamma, they sometimes used the asper, as e>.[ii-es, happy. ' Grae- 
oorum DIGAMMA, Germani, Saxones, Belgici, et Britanni, partim 
simplicem U, partim duplicem faciunt; idemque hi durius, iili 
suavius, alii lenius ut liquidum U, pronuntiant.' Aria Mont. Prafat, 
in Bibl, Heb. p. 1." 
Ibid. c. 2. p. 43. Note [e]. 
