connects the crescent beta ( C ) of Naxos, Delos, &c. with the common form, and is evidently therefore an early form of the letter.
I take this opportunity of thanking Mr. Jones for other help, especially in regard to the subject of this section.
[27] Harmonik und Melopöie, p. 286 (ed. 1863). The true form of the letter is given by Mr. Roberts, Greek Epigraphy, p. 109.
[28] Pausanias (iv. 27, 4) says of the founding of Messene: eirgazonto de kai hypo mousuiês allês men oudemias, aulôn de Boiôtiôn kai Argeiôn; ta te Sakada kai Pronomou melê tote dê proêchthê malista eis hamillan.
[29] Harm. ii. 8 hoi de hyperekpiptontes tou dia pasôn tous ap' autou tou dia pasôn apôterô parelkontôs hypotithentai, tous autous aei ginomenous tois proeilêmmenois.
[30] Harm. ii. 11 hôste mêd' an heteron eti doxai tô eidei ton tonon para ton proteron, all' hypodôrion palin, ê ton auton hypophrygion, oxyphônoteron tinos ê baryphônoteron monon.
[31] Harm. ii. 7 pros tên toiautên diaphoran hê tôn organôn holôn epitasis ê palin anesis aparkei.
[32] This may be traced in the occasionally controversial tone; as Harm. ii. 7 hoi men ep' elatton tou dia pasôn phthasantes, hoi d' ep' auto monon, hoi de epi to meizon toutou, prokopên tina schedon toiautên aei tôn neôterôn para tous palaioterous thêrômenôn, anoikeion tês peri to hêrmosmenon physeôs te kai apokatastaseôs; hê monê perainein anankaion esti tên tôn esomenôn akrôn tonôn diastasin. We may compare c. 11.
[33] So Bacch. p. 19 Meib. theseis de tetrachordôn hois to melos horizetai eisin hepta? synaphê, diazeuxis, hypodiazeuxis, k.t.l. (see the whole passage).