Excerpt from Robert Ainsworth's Dictionary, English and Latin, Vol. 2: With Great Additions and Amendments; Particularly a Large and Copious Index of Such Words as Occur in Stephens and Ainsworth, of an Obsolete, Unclassical, Doubtful, or Modern Character The names, the place, 0: order, and the numeral power, of letters, are the fame in Hebrew, Samaritan, Syriac, and Greek.-'l'be the, Owe to their place, and not their place to them; for the alphabetic charaéten mutt have been firtl known before they could have been enlied to the purports of arithmetic. Cr. Ih. 9. 141. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.