The origin and progress of writing, as well hieroglyphic as elementary, illustrated by engravings taken from marbles, manuscripts and charters, ancient and modern : also some account of the origin and progress of printing . were ufed before the days and Simonides, for we find the letters H, 0, 0, in thatmoft ancient infcription, found at Amyclea, in Laconia (2), which is (9) Three opinions have prevailed con- Montfaucons Paleographias Grasca, &c. cerning the origin of Greek letters ; the firft, (2) In this city was one of the moft cele- ihat Cadmus was the inventor ; the fecond, b
The origin and progress of writing, as well hieroglyphic as elementary, illustrated by engravings taken from marbles, manuscripts and charters, ancient and modern : also some account of the origin and progress of printing . were ufed before the days and Simonides, for we find the letters H, 0, 0, in thatmoft ancient infcription, found at Amyclea, in Laconia (2), which is (9) Three opinions have prevailed con- Montfaucons Paleographias Grasca, &c. cerning the origin of Greek letters ; the firft, (2) In this city was one of the moft cele- ihat Cadmus was the inventor ; the fecond, brated temples of all Greece, in which was a -attributes them to Cecrops j — and the third, ftatue of Apollo, thirty cubits high. — This with more reafon, to the Pelafgi. place is now called Schabochori. (0 See Spanheim on Medals, p. no.— fuppofed ,.66. at/TV: I T££f $ t^L-T^k1! ^A k^L//^£k^ Pi3 » 303 MI^vPKTO K |>£ HO VI 3 * 3 fleoftoAi/^oc TA/EJC\oy IV OXOITIOTXOTAW QW\1rEZioiw AO WtfEB* OK £ £ T P v T/ WOnKH/4^£ k 9 O/ kT» NON I K CUNTDNKOCMo eiM h ottto hcyo) onr 1 vcecn OYOCTOYOY-OyrOCeCTI M vO/<\(:rTOAieo^(v^4 IV^^MSK^ I TO S0 x ^IHl- 6OIOMO6 CfTin\coYifd)He MJTONTAHeiH(D. •HAtiqnicw Chap. V. OF WRITING. 67 fuppofed to have been written about one hundred and fixty years beforethe fiege of Troy, and one thoufand three hundred ;md forty-four beforeChrist (3). It is now preferved in the French kings collection atParis, with fome other pieces difcovered in the fame city by the AbbeFourmont.— See a fpecimen of this infcription, plate II, No. 1 j thereading of which is as follows : MHENAAIA TO AMOKEA . TEEP EKAAIITAK2 TO KAAIMAK02 MATEEP NEKIA TO KAAIMAKO MATEEP K KAPAAEPI2 TO KAAPO MATEEP KA AMOMONA TO AEPOSEO MATEEP NKAMAMONA TO Which, rendered into the ordinaiy Greek, will be read thus; MxiVOiXiOC TOV AftVXTitllOV /A^TTJ^, ]£MChlXoiZot TOV KolXl^ ftOTYjg, Nsxix tIv KahifAXxxs fining Kotgtxdsgig tov Kottyov ^YiTY}^, x&Apofiovoi to
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