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These Phoenicians who came with Cadmus and of whom the Gephyraeans were a part brought with them to Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas, among many other kinds of learning, the alphabet, which had been unknown before this, I think, to the Greeks. As time went on the sound and the form of the letters were changed.
These Phoenicians who came with Cadmus and of whom the Gephyraeans were a part brought with them to Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas, among many other kinds of learning, the alphabet, which had been unknown before this, I think, to the Greeks. As time went on the sound and the form of the letters were changed.
[2] At this time the
Greeks who were settled around them were for the most part
Ionians, and after being taught the letters by the
Phoenicians, they used them with a few changes of form. In so doing, they gave to these characters the name of
Phoenician, as was quite fair seeing that the
Phoenicians had brought them into
Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeGreece.
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[3] The
Ionians have also from ancient times called sheets of papyrus skins, since they formerly used the skins of sheep and goats due to the lack of papyrus. Even to this day there are many foreigners who write on such skins.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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