[17]
Now such a
practice will be an actual hindrance to those who are
learning to read. This difficulty occurs in Greek as
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well in connexion with the addition of an iota, which
is employed not merely in the termination of the
dative, but is sometimes found in the middle of
words as in λῄστης, for the reason that the analysis
applied by etymology shows the word to be a trisyllable1 and requires the addition of that letter.
The diphthong ae now written with an e, was pronounced in old days as ai;
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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