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 AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF GREEK. 5 hundred years; others as old as the notorious Dialogus Erasmi Roterdami de grceci latinique pro- nunciatione — namely, three hundred and sixty- eight years. With truth and simplicity alone can the errors concerning Greek be crushed. To do justice to the subject, the time allowed for a simple lecture would be too short. It will be enough if I confine myself this evening to giving a sketch of the historical development of the modern Greek language. My remarks are based not only on the re- searches of prominent native Greek philologists — I wish to mention especially Hatzidakis* who, like many learned Greeks, has made his studies of old Greek philology in German universities, and who with pride calls himself a scholar of Delbriick; and the great scholar, Papadimitra- kopulos, whose crushing arguments, as my es- teemed friend Professor Leotsakos expresses himself, are not less formidable in strength and length than his name — but also the writings of different authors of different countries found in the periodical 'ElXd^, published by the Philhellenic Society of Amsterdam, and other periodicals and books. Hatzidakis, "Einleitung in die neugriechische Grammatik," Leipzig, 1892.
 * In this paper I avail myself mostly of the book of G. N.