[B-Greek] rho with *smooth* breathing???
dlucas
lisistrata at navegalia.com
Sun Sep 14 02:54:37 EDT 2003
el 12/9/03 17:59, Carl W. Conrad en cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu escribió:
> At 10:53 AM -0400 9/12/03, bgreek at ntresources.com wrote:
>> I was just reading v. 4 of the Unicode charts and note that they have
>> assigned U+1FE4 to a character named "Greek small letter rho with
>> psili"--i.e., rho with smooth breathing.
>>
>> Does such a creature exist? Or am I just having a bad memory day? :)
>
> Older printed editions of Greek texts not uncommonly used a rho with smooth
> breathing followed by a rho with rough breathing, the understanding being
> that the rho was trilled and aspirated afterwards. See Smyth §13 for this.
> --
I think initial rho with smooth breathing is also used in modern editions to
represent psilosis: fragments by Alcaeus, Sappho, East Ionic inscriptions
ktl (e. g.: Page in Lyrica Graeca Selecta (1968) writes R(WITH SMOOTH
BREATHING)UESQE in Alcaeus 109.
David Lucas
Salamanca, España
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