ad potestatem5, quod maximum est in elementis, aliae literae esse5 praeter supra dictas……quia diuersum sonum6…habent.…quamuis7 et Censorino…idem placuit8.
Tantum9 enim fere interest inter uocales et consonantes, quantum inter animas et corpora. Vocales similiter ut per se mouentur ad perficiendam syllabam et consonantes mouent secum10, consonantes uero sine uocalibus inmobiles[1] sunt11. Et i quidem modo12 pro simplici, modo pro duplici accipitur consonante: pro simplici, quando ab eo[2] incipit syllaba in principio dictionis posita[3] subsequente uocali in eadem sillaba13…pro duplici quando in medio dictionis ab eo incipit syllaba14 post uocalem antepossitam15 subsequente quoque
P. 7b
uocali in eadem syllaba1, ut ‘maius,’ ‘peius,’ ‘eius2,’ in quo loco antiqui solebant geminare eandem i literam et ‘maiius,’ ‘peiius,’ ‘eiius’ scribere, quod non aliter3 pronuntiari posset quam4 si cum superiori5 syllaba prior i, cum sequente6 altera proferetur, ut ‘pei-ius,’ ‘ei-ius,’ ‘mai-ius’; nam quamuis7 sit consonans, in eadem syllaba geminata iungi non posset; ergo non alitor quam ‘tellus,’ ‘mannus’ proferri8 debuit. …nam tribus i iunctis qualis possit syllaba pronuntiari? quod9 Caesari…placitum10 a Victore[4] quoque in arte grammatica in syllabis11 comprobatur. Pro simplici quoque in media dictione inuenitur, sed in compossitis, ut ‘iniuria12,’….Virgilius in bucolico proceleusmaticum[5]13 posuit pro dactylo:
5: saini archuit cumachti6: infogur7: adas8: atasaini litre archuit cumachti9: inméitse10: toddiusgat guth nintiu11: nístuarascbat feisin cengutai12: cachlacein13: la ·í·14: tosach sillabe15: remisi
P. 7b
1: .i. inóensillaib disi ingute[6] innadegaid2: comtis ainmmnidi atriur3: nírubai nach cruth ailiu4: oldaas5: dá intairmmthechtas forsindí toisech ḟrisingutai remi6: .i. lasin ṅgutai innadegaid7: adas8: dofurgabtais9: .i. andliged nísin nephaccomoil inna teora liter inoen sillab10: rotoltanaigestar11: sáer ocsuidigtid sillab12: archonsain diuit insin13: traig cethargarait
5. diverse as regards power.6. the sound.8. that they are different letters[7] as regards power.10. they awaken voice into them.11. they do not express themselves without vowels.12. with i.14. beginning of a syllable.15. before it.
1. i.e. in the same syllable is it and the vowel after it.2. the three of them would be nominatives.3. it cannot be[8] otherwise.5. two passages on the first i, towards the vowel before it.6. i.e. along with the vowel after it.8. to be pronounced[9].9. i.e. that law of not joining the three letters in one syllable.10. it has pleased.11. an artist in putting syllables.12. that (is) for a simple consonant.13. a foot of four short syllables.
- ↑ MS. īnmobiles
- ↑ MS. om. ab eo
- ↑ MS. posito
- ↑ a Victore: MS. auctori, to which the Irish gloss refers
- ↑ MS. proclimaticum corrected to proceleumaticum
- ↑ leg. ⁊ ingute, cf. Vol. i. p. 234 note
- ↑ cf. above p. 39, note c, Sg. 28b2
- ↑ Cf. 209a3 infra, rubi 21b13, rombi 29b16
- ↑ Here the Irish subj. pl. 3 translates the infinitive proferri
