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 . particularly of accents or rhythm. The ingenious Dr. Burney, hathgiven us many curious particulars concerning the fcience of rhythmamong the ancients (0- We are fully of opinion, that the ufe ofaccents among the Greeks, is much more ancient than fome writerswill allow. Arcadian 7 The Arcadians ufed the Ionic manner of writing in earlyLetters, £ times. It is eafy to conceive
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 . particularly of accents or rhythm. The ingenious Dr. Burney, hathgiven us many curious particulars concerning the fcience of rhythmamong the ancients (0- We are fully of opinion, that the ufe ofaccents among the Greeks, is much more ancient than fome writerswill allow. Arcadian 7 The Arcadians ufed the Ionic manner of writing in earlyLetters, £ times. It is eafy to conceive, that the Corinthians werefoon acquainted with the mode of writing practifed by their neighboursthe Orcadians, as Arcadia was the inland part, and Corinth was fituatedupon the Ifthmus, of Peloponnefus. Damaratus of Corinth brought (1) V. Catal. M. SS. Angl. et Hib. p. 42, (3) Lexicon Dipl. Gottingen, 1756, F°.No. 289. (4) The work is de re metrica Suidas (2) Concerning abbreviations in Greek Jul. Capitolmus. M. SS. fee MuntfaucOns Palseographia (5) See his General Hiftory of Mufic,Graeca, p. 345 to 370, vol. i, from p. 71, to p. 86, thefe JSl£JZMl*&AMrM/£ra/mni Grae Tad. W. 30L e<v i/lumv. etMS S-. feiC€rb<jrc^oc Yn hp «t*xf v sss s?s H4KU/B : (//1 Ill: feN n ^ V p V, / 6 P (U ^ c > / » IS** «3\ro$>> X^5 ODOOOiOS ^O^ oupa|/ap pay our XLoupocj/u>u9 a^H\tou 0OCOOU-OU (5 CejynvH 3* H fZ>Hjxepot|j ©G^hvhV CUV etc *7 */ JL olocl^L 3^ c 6 H .V 4? 6TH. 0 ^ ^TVov o> «. Chap V. OF WRITING. 77 thefe letters to Tarquinium, where he fettled; and his fon TarquiniusPriscus, the fifth king of the Romans, caufed them to be eftablifhedin his dominions, about the year before Christ 560. The Arcadianalphabet confifts only of nineteen letters; the G, of the moft ancientRoman form, ftands in the place of the C; V, V, in the place ofF j C in the place of K j and F, W, X, Y, Z, are not in thisalphabet. The Arcadian alphabet in plate I, is taken from theNouve
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