First Latin Lessons —— Containing the Most Important Parts of the Grammar of the Latin Language, Together With Appropriate Exercises in the Translating and Writing of Latin, for the Use of Beginners

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ISBN: 9781330396629 出版年：2016 页码：368 Charles Anthon Forgotten Books

III. The reason Of no capital y appearing in Latin is simply this: every Greek word beginning with an upsilon has that upsilon aspirated, that is, pronounced as if com mehoing with an it, hence no word in Latin can begin with a y, but must always commence with by.