Capitolo 43
dropper of antiquity that he/she would take an exception without some
reasons, against the particular letter in the alphabet, as not to
admit once him in a whole poem. A Tryphiodorus was a great
you dominate in some kind to write. He composed one "Odyssey" or epic poem
poem on the adventures of Ulysses, consisting of four-and-twenty
books, having banished completely the letter A from its first book,
what you/he/she had called Alphabetical, as lucus a not the lucendo, because there was
not an Alpha in him. The his/her according to book was written beta for the same
reason. In short, the poet excluded the whole four-and-twenty
letters in their turns, and it showed them, one after him anything else other than him
you/he/she could make his/her business without them.
It is due to be very pleasant to have seen this poet that avoids the
letter of reprobate, as much as another a false quantity, and
making his/her escape from him through the many Greek dialects, when
he was pressed with him in some particular syllable. For the most proper
and elegant word in the whole language had refused, as a diamond
with a defect in him, if it appeared deformed with a wrong letter. ME
it will only observe on this head that if the job that I have here
now mentioned her/it you/he/she had been existing "Odyssey" of Tryphiodorus, in everybody
probability, would have been oftener quoted by our learned pedants
what her "Odyssey" of Homer. Thing a perpetual fund is able him/it has
state of obsolete words and sentences, the unusual barbarisms and
rusticity, absurd spellings and complicated dialects! I do anybody
you question but that you/he/she would have been looked on as one of the more anymore
precious treasuries of the Greek language.
I likewise find among the venerable old men that clever kind of conceitedness
what the modernses distinguish from the name of a rebus that doesn't do
you sink a letter but a whole word replacing a portrait in his,
place. When Caesar was one of the masters of the Roman mint him,
put the figure of an elephant on the reverse of the public