[120] Plat., _In Hipparc._; Pausan, l. vii., c. 26; Cicer., _De Orat._, l. iii. [121] Eustath., _In Iliad._, l. i., p. 145; l. ii., p. 263. [122] Dionys. Halic., _De Comp. verb._, t. v., c. 16 et 24; Quintil., _Instit._, l. x., c. 1. [123] Athen., l. xv., c. 8; Aristot., _De Poët._, c. 16; Ælian., _Var. Hist._, c. 15. [124] Barthel., _Voyag. d’Anarchar._, t. vii., ch. 80, p. 46, 52. [125] It can be seen that I have placed in the word Stesi[`c]horus, an _accent grave_ over the consonant _c_, and it will be noticed that I have used it thus with respect to many similar words. It is a habit I have contracted in writing, so as to distinguish, in this manner, the double consonant _ch_, in the foreign words, or in their derivatives, when it should take the guttural inflexion, in place of the hissing inflexion which we ordinarily give to it. Thus I accent the _[`c]_ in _Chio_, _[`c]hœur_, _[`c]horus_, _é[`c]ho_, _[`c]hlorose_, _[`c]hiragre_, _[`c]hronique_, etc.; to indicate that these words should be pronounced _Khio_, _khœur_, _khorus_, _ékho_, _khlorose_, _khiragre_, _khronique_, with the aspirate sound of _k_, and not with that of the hissing _c_, as in _Chypre_, _chaume_, _échope_, _chaire_, etc. This accentuation has appeared to me necessary, especially when one is obliged to transcribe in modern characters many foreign words which, lacking usage, one knows not, at first, how to pronounce. It is, after all, a slight innovation in orthography, which I leave to the decision of the grammarians. I only say that it will be very difficult for them, without this accent, or any other sign which might be used, to know how one should pronounce with a different inflexion, _A[`c]haïe_ and _Achéen_; _Achille_ and _A[`c]hilleïde; Achêron_ and _a[`c]hérontique_; _Bac[`c]hus_ and _bachique_, etc. [126] Vossius, _De Inst. poët._, l. iii., c. 15; Aristot., _Rhet._, l. ii., 23; Max. Tyr. _Orat._, viii., p. 86. [127] Ælian., _Var. Hist._, l. xiii., c. 14, Court de Gébelin, _Mond. prim._, t. viii., p. 202. [128] Plat., _In Theæt._; _ibid._, _De Republ._, l. x.; Arist., _De Poët._, c. 4, etc. [129] The name of Homeridæ, given at first to all the disciples of Homer, was afterwards usurped by certain inhabitants of Chios who called themselves his descendants (Strab., l. xiv.; Isocr., _Hellen. encom._). Also I should state here that the name of Homer, Ὅμηρος, was never of Greek origin and has not signified, as has been said, _blind_. The initial letter O is not a negation, but an article added to the Phœnician word מרא (_mœra_), which signifies, properly speaking, a centre of light, and figuratively, a master, a doctor.