Note 43 — Homeric Translation in Theory and Practice A Reply to Matthew Arnold By Francis W. Newman
Reading edition
That λλ in Attic was sounded like French l mouillée, is judged probable by the learned writer of the article L (Penny Cyclop.), who urges that μᾶλλον is for μάλιον, and compares φυλλο with folio, αλλο with alio, ἁλλ with sali.