Note 42 — THE PRONUNCIATION OF GREEK, &c.

Perhaps some classical young gentleman at Oxford or Cambridge may be moved by the consideration brought forward in the following passage:—“I was much delighted with this really Grecian ball, at which I was the only foreigner. The Grecian fair I have ever found peculiarly agreeable in society. They are not in the smallest degree tainted with the artificial refinements and affectations of more civilised life, while they have all its graces and fascinations; and I cannot help thinking that as some one thought it worth while to learn ancient Greek at the age of seventy, for the sole purpose of reading the Iliad, so it is well worthy the pains of learning modern Greek at any age, for the pleasure of conversing, in her own tongue, with a young and cultivated Greek beauty.”—Wanderings in Greece, by George Cochran, Esq. London, 1837.