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XXXVII. On the radical Letters of the Pelasgians and their derivatives. By Thomas Astle, Esq.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
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A knowledge of the radical letters of any language, is the surest means of obtaining information respecting the sounds of which such language was composed, and of the state of it when these radical letters only were used. This will best enable us to recover those which have been for many ages so intirely neglected as to be in a manner effaced. The utility which results from a distinction of the radical letters of such languages from their derivatives is too obvious to need any illustration; the separation of the one from the other, will assist in forming a right judgment of the age and authenticity of coins, inscriptions, and other ancient documents, and will be of the greatest use in distinguishing such as are genuine from those which are spurious.
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page 349 note [a] Origin and Progress of Writing, chap. iv. p. 51, & seq.
page 349 note [b] Hist. Nat. lib. iii. cap. 5.
page 350 note [c] Two other tables were found at the same time, written in Roman letters, but these do not relate to the present subject.
page 351 note [d] A letter like the Ionic theta Θ is found on these tables, but it has the power of the aspirate H.
page 351 note [e] A city of Campania near Nola in Italy, and published at Rome in 1774, with notes by J. B. Passer. See more concerning this inscription in Gebelin's Monde Primitif, vol. IV. p. 216, et seq.
page 352 note [f] Mr. Chishull supposes, that the Π was the B diminished, whereas the latter is the Π augmented.
page 352 note [g] This Bronze is preserved in the Borgian Museum at Velletria, and was communicated to me by the learned S. Borgia, Sec. Congreg. de propaganda Fide &c.
page 352 note [h] See D'Hancarville's Recherches sur l'origine, l'esprit, et les progres des arts de la Grece. Vol. II. plate XXI. London 1785, 4to.
page 353 note [h] See Antiquitates Asiaticæ, p. 50. 68. 98.
page 353 note [i] See Antiquitates Asiaticæ, p. 20.
page 354 note [k] See Chishull's Antiquitates Asiaticæ, p. 17. n. 31. and p. 19.
page 354 note [l] Jackson's Chronological Antiq. vol. III. p. 166 et seq.
page 354 note [m] See Dr. Taylor's Elements of Civil Law, p. 553, 554, and 555, and Chishull ut supra.
page 355 note [n] Recherches sur l'Origine &c. des Arts de la Grece, par Mr. D'Hancarville, vol. II. p. 320.
page 355 note [o] Origin and Progress of Writing, pl. II. p. 66. D'Hancarville ut supra, p. 202. 206. 242. 247. n. 100.
page 356 note [p] See Nouveau traité de Diplomatique, vol. I. plate VII. p. 654. and the Origin and Progress of Writing, p. 64.
page 356 note [q] See Monsieur Gebelin, vol. VI. ut supra.
page 357 note [r] Mem. de l'Acad. des Insc. tom. xxxix. edit. in 12°. p. 129. Gebelin's Mondé Primitif. tom. iii. p. . Nouveau traité de Dipl. tom. i. p. 615 to 626, and Universal Hist. vol. XVI. p. 46. note D, edit. 8vo. and particularly Monsieur D'Hancarville's learned work above quoted.
page 360 note [u] Lib. xx. c. 5.
page 361 note [x] He is said to have written about one hundred and sixty-eight years after the destruction of Troy, or as some will have it, about 907 before Christ.