Frank T. Coulson

New Evidence for the Circulation of the Text of Valerius Flaccus

we explain the equivalence? The doubling of 0 may have had the effect of intensifying the aspirate element contained in the single consonant. And presumably a similar effect resulted from combining d with the aspirate h (the Lycian symbol +), which reinforced the already existing aspirate element in d. Clearly all this has interesting implications for the pronunciation of delta in Greek. The Lycian transcription of the name AfltoKkci8ri as NtemuXlida reflects a clear distinction between the initial delta of the name and the intervocalic delta. The Lycians transcribed the former as nt, probably representing a simple voiced dental, and the latter as d, which may well have represented a voiced dental aspirate. It is arguable, then, that the sound represented by delta in Greek may have varied according to the position in which the symbol occurred within a word. While initial delta in Greek words was probably pronounced as a simple voiced dental, the intervocalic delta perhaps had the sound of a voiced dental aspirate. In modern Greek, delta is regularly pronounced in this way, and in the intervocalic position the pronunciation of delta in classical Greek may not have differed markedly from its pronunciation in the modern language.

Codices Latini Ohienses (1): Latin Manuscripts in the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library of the Ohio State University

This article represents the first formal catalogue of the Latin manuscripts in the collection of the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library at Ohio State University. The collection comprises manuscripts dating from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries; the catalogue analyses and describes their physical properties, as well as their authors and texts.