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[17] Now such a practice will be an actual hindrance to those who are learning to read. This difficulty occurs in Greek as well in connexion with the addition of an
iota, which is employed not merely in the termination of the dative, but is sometimes found in the middle of words as in
λῄστης, for the reason that the analysis applied by etymology shows the word to be a trisyllable
1
and requires the addition of that letter. The diphthong
ae now written with an
e, was pronounced in old days as
ai;
Institutio Oratoria. Quintilian. Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator). Cambridge, Mass.. 1920-1922.
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