Excerpt from Further Notes on the Names of the Letters For the use of h in Latin Spelling to express the syllable ha (ea), and similarly of e for the syllable ee, d for de, b for be, I quote from Terentius Scaurus in Keil, Gramm. Lat, VII, 14, 15, a passage which I found through sittl's quotation of it in his Die lohalen Verschieden heiten der lateinischen Sprache, p. 23 Hac [k] tamen antiqui in conexione syllabarum ibi tantum utebantur, ubi a littera subiungenda erat, quoniam multis vocalibus instantibus, quotiens id ...
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Excerpt from Further Notes on the Names of the Letters For the use of h in Latin Spelling to express the syllable ha (ea), and similarly of e for the syllable ee, d for de, b for be, I quote from Terentius Scaurus in Keil, Gramm. Lat, VII, 14, 15, a passage which I found through sittl's quotation of it in his Die lohalen Verschieden heiten der lateinischen Sprache, p. 23 Hac [k] tamen antiqui in conexione syllabarum ibi tantum utebantur, ubi a littera subiungenda erat, quoniam multis vocalibus instantibus, quotiens id verbum scribendum erat, in quo retinere hae litterae nomen suum possent, singulae pro syllaba scribebantur, tanquam satis eam ipso nomine explerent, ut puta 'decimus,'d per se deinde cimus, item cera, ' c Simplex et ra, et 'bene, ' b et ne. Ita et quotiens kanus et karus scribendum erat, quia Singulis litteris primae syllabae notabantur, k prima ponebatur, quae suo nomine a continebat, quia, Si c posuissent, cenus ci cerus futurum erat, non canns et carus. Also cf. Sittl's note 24 on p. 24 of his book: Ein Ueberrest dieser Schreibweise findet sich in den tironischen Noten, welche A nach K regelmiissig auslassen. This passage from Terentius Scaurus does not decide the question of the vowel quantity in the Latin letter names (e for ee' in eera, but d for d? In deeimus, b for b???' in bene). The practice which I supposed to be illustrated in the manuscript of the Provencal Boethius thus has a considerable antiquity. Although we do not know the date of the antiqui of whom Terentius Scaurus Speaks, it must have been considerably before the time of Hadrian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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