An Analytical Essay on the Greek Alphabet. -London, Nichols 1791

Download or read book An Analytical Essay on the Greek Alphabet. -London, Nichols 1791 written by Richard Payne Knight and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1791 edition. Excerpt: ... DESTROYER, generally, according-to a well-known attribute of Apollo, exZpreffied in the symbolical writing of antient art by the bow and arrows which he carried. The tale which deduces it from ogni-dog', said to be the Cretan name for a moush, is of later times, and gives a signification unworthy of the solemnity of the occasion on which Chryses invokes the God, in his character of Destroyer, to avenge his wrongs upon the Greeks. Like.many others of the same kind, 'it was invented to give a fictitious meaning and paffive sense, which is oftener expressed by the active than the middle voice(x). The pronoun might also, in these instances, be understood, as in act: ye avwssavre; rarMov s; 'araNv (2). The Venetian Scholiast would, however, derive avnyaOe and evrevnvode from e9w, antiently FEOQ, whence the perfect FEFOOA, now written emOa According to his idea, therefore, the antient forms must have been ANFEFOOE and EHENFEFOOE, or with the aspirates elided, as in compounds, ANEFOOE and EUENEFOOE; but the perfect tense will not do in either instance. In 03. O. 365, the sense seems indeed to favour this etymology; but I think the line is spurious. AFQ, or AFEQ; whence come the antient words AFO-E-EFOE or-EOE, morning, and AFOFOZ the adjective derived from it_; both of which are now written and declined, after the Ionic and Attic manner, HQE-OTZ;, and HOIOZ The Ionic variation might have taken place even before the timeof Homer; but the Attic termination of the genitive is, as before observed, a corruption of no very earlyv date, it being unanthenticated by any very antient monument. An immense number of words are derived from this root, all of which were antiently written upon the same principle, as AFHP (in Ionic EFHP or HHP), ...