Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Catalogue of Greek Verbs: For the Use of Colleges
Dionysius the Halicarnassian (roman. Antiq. 1, 20) con siders it equivalent to the diphthong or or the Latin V. We may suppose then that F had the sound of the English W, or the Latin V as the Romans pronounced it; and that, in the time of Dionysius, the diphthong ov was sounded like French on, or English 00, as in moon. Compare the exclamation odai, Latin vw, English too or woe.
Herodotus in one instance (4, 110) represents it by the diphthong OI (if the reading be genuine). He states that 0369 in the Scythian language means oim'g, man; which seems to be nothing more than the Teutonic wer, and Latin vir.
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