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	Latin alphabet
		It is generally held that the Latins adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy.
		The Latin alphabet spread from the Italian Peninsula, along with the Latin language, to the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea with the expansion of the Roman Empire.
		As late as 1492, the Latin alphabet was limited primarily to the languages spoken in western, northern and central Europe.
	www.jgames.co.uk /title/Latin_alphabet (2214 words)

	Etruscan_alphabet
		This classical alphabet remained in use until the 2nd century BC when it began to be contaminated by the rise of the Latin alphabet.
		The Osci probably adopted the archaic Etruscan alphabet during the 7th century, but a recognizably Oscan variant of the alphabet is attested only from the 5th century, its sign inventory being extended over the classical Etruscan alphabet by the introduction of long vowel variants of I and U, transcribed as Í and Ú.
		The "Alphabet of Lugano" was used to record Lepontic inscriptions, among the oldest testimonies of any Celtic language, in use from the 7th to the 5th centuries BC.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/e/et/etruscan_alphabet.html (847 words)

	Old Italic alphabet \| Korean \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Etruscan) languages.The alphabets derive from Euboean Greek Cumaean alphabet, used at Ischia and Cumae in the Bay of Naples in the eighth century BC.
		Cumaean, in turn showed strong similarities to the Phoenician alphabet, lending support to theories of Phoenician influence in the West-Central Mediterranean region.Various Indo-European languages belonging to the Italic branch (Faliscan and members of the Sabellian group, including Oscan, Umbrian, and South Picene, and other Indo-European branches such as Venetic and Messapic) originally used the alphabet.
		The Germanic runic alphabet was most likely derived from one of these alphabets in about the 2nd century.
	www.babylon.com /definition/Old_Italic_alphabet/Korean (167 words)

	D peee.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past.
		Notable exceptions are the Braille alphabet, Morse code and the cuneiform alphabet of the ancient city of Ugarit.
		In a perfectly phonological alphabet, the phonemes and letters would correspond perfectly in two directions: a writer could predict the spelling of a word given its pronunciation, and a speaker could predict the pronunciation of a word given its spelling.
	www.peee.org /en/D (12273 words)

	Cumae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The fame of the Cumaean Sibyl, whose cave was linked to the great temple of Apollo, reflected the significance of Cumae in the diffusion of Greek and oriental religious ideas in the west.
		The legendary account of the encounter between the Cumaean Sibyl and Tarquinius Priscus of Rome suggests that Apollo’s shrine and prophetess were widely known and respected.
		In 474 BC the Cumaeans and their ally Hieron of Syracuse defeated an Etruscan fleet, a victory immortalized by Pindar in the first Pythian Ode.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /WestCivI/cumae.htm (1441 words)

	mmpg.info Estruscan alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The alphabets derive from Euboean Greek Cumaean alphabet ; used at Ischia and Cumae in the Bay of Naples in the eighth century BC
		Cumaean; in turn showed strong similarities to the Phoenician alphabet ; lending support to theories of Phoenician influence in the West-Central Mediterranean region.
		The "Alphabet of Lugano " was used to record Lepontic inscriptions; among the oldest testimonies of any Celtic language ; in use from the 7th to the 5th centuries BC The alphabet has 17 letters; derived from the archaic Etruscan alphabet: :AEIKLMNOPRSTΘUVXZ The alphabet does not distinguish voiced consonant and unvoiced occlusive s; i.e
	mmpg.info /7344 (790 words)

	Cumae - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Cumae is perhaps most famous as the seat of the Cumaean Sibyl.
		The colony was also the entry point onto the Italian peninsula for the Cumean alphabet, a variant of which was adapted by the Romans.
		The Cumaen colony spread throughout the area over the 6th and 7th centuries BCE, gaining sway over Puteoli and Miseno and, thereafter, the founding of Neapolis in 470 BCE.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Cumae (483 words)

	untitled1.html
		Because of our particular interest in the alphabetic progenitors of Duchamp's written letters, we shall bypass discussion of early pictographic inscriptions, as from China or Egypt; neither shall we dwell upon the cuneiform writing of early Elam, Sumer and Susa, for those systems were syllabaries, and not technically alphabetic.
		The poetic metaphor of her darkly oracular writings, spelt and scattered on windblown leaves, supplies a vivid parable of the earnest and widespread dissemination of alphabetic script that signalled at least the beginning of the end of cultural dominance by oral transmission.
		Under the influence of alphabetic literacy, Greek writers created the vocabulary of abstract thought that is still in use to this day, notions such as body, matter, essence, space, translation, time, motion, permanence, change, flux, quality, quantity, combination and ratio.
	www.csus.edu /indiv/v/vonmeierk/5-02ALP.html (6294 words)

	Pauca Anecdota Neapolitana
		The Cumaean Sibyl established herself in a cave under this temple, for Apollo is the principal god of prophecy.
		Indeed, the earliest Sibyl is supposed to have come from Erythrae (on the coast of Asia Minor) or from Trojan Mt. Ida, where her cave was discovered near a sanctuary of Apollo in 1891.
		Also, "alphabet oracles," in which each Greek letter is associated with a prediction, are known from Near Eastern temples of Apollo (see, for example, my translation of a Greek Alphabet Oracle from Limyra in Lycia); many of these temples had dice or knucklebones for consulting such oracles on a table inside the sanctuary.
	www.cs.utk.edu /~mclennan/BA/JO-AN.html (3226 words)

	INSPIRATION (Lat. insp... - Online Information article about INSPIRATION (Lat. insp...
		great value was attached to the books of the Cumaean Sibyl.
		By thus laying stress on this redemptive purpose of the divine revelation, the Reformers were delivered from the bondage of the See also:
		littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /I27_INV/INSPIRATION_Lat_inspirare_breat.html (4861 words)

	campania - NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project
		Cumae was the oldest Greek colony on the west coast of Italy.
		The female head on the coins of Cumae may perhaps represent a nymph Kyme as a personification of the city, or possibly the famous Cumaean sibyl or the siren Parthenope.
		Neapolis, an ancient Rhodian colony, originally called Parthenope, was recolonized by the Cumaeans in the course of the sixth century B.C. About the middle of the fifth century Chalcidian and Athenian settlers called the place Neapolis.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /numiswiki/view.asp?key=campania (3165 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Novus Ordo Seclorum
		Michelangelos rendering of the Cumaean Sibyl The Cumaean Sibyl was the priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Cumae, a Greek colony located near Naples,Italy.
		Hexameter is a literary and poetic form, consisting of six metrical feet per line as in the Iliad.
		Ash (Ã†, Ã¦; pronounced) is a letter of the Latin alphabet for English.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Novus-Ordo-Seclorum (1568 words)

	[No title]
		Numbers are the network of the structure of the Universe, and their relations the form of expression of our Understanding of it.
		The "ordinary" words such as God, self, soul, spirit and the rest have been used so many thousand times in so many thousand ways, usually by writers who knew not, or cared not for the necessity of definition that to use them to-day in any scientific essay is almost ludicrous.
		But our Magical Alphabet is primarily not letters, but figures, not sounds but mathematical ideas.
	www.magister.msk.ru /library/babilon/english/crowl02.txt (20777 words)

	V I O L E T A N G E L
		Numbers are associated with each letter of the alphabet and each number vibrates to a particular frequency.
		When representing ones name in numbers, it is said that the numbers which are excluded indicate those experiences which are needed during this lifetime to assist the spirit, and the physical manifestation of the spirit, in the experiences necessary to facilitate the completion of the cycle of successive rebirth.
		Despite records, and despite this long tradition of sanctity, the Cumaean Sibyls were considered fantasy until archaeologists proved their actual existence by discovering sticks and stones, tunnels and slabs of quarried rock, and the cave in which each Sibyl had lived at Cumae.
	www.freewebs.com /violetangel/sacred.html (2596 words)

	Contents of spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/papers/sloane1
		On still another page, he ridicules superstitious Virgil (Fourth Eclogue) for announcing that "the last age predicted by the Cumaean Sibyl has now arrived" (10.27.333).
		Each line begins with a different letter of the Hebrew alphabet and the letters fall in alphabetical order.
		Because Hebrew letters can represent numbers, a Psalm that lists all the letters of the alphabet also lists all the numbers (or all the marks used for writing numbers).
	www.driftline.org /cgi-bin/archive/archive.cgi?list=spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/papers/sloane1 (7780 words)

	[No title]
		I had seen a reproduction of this lady in some book, and had become much interested in her generous physique, her brawny arms, her wide-spreading toes, and her look of concentration as she delves into the mysteries of the massive volume before her.
		True, the Sibyl does not compare in greatness with the "Creation of Adam" in one of the central panels, but for all that I was glad to have her definitely localized.
		I have never got it clearly figured out just how the letters of the alphabet were evolved, nor who did the work, but I go right on using them as if I had evolved them myself.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/13049/13049.txt (24944 words)

	Sicily peee.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Standard Italian is based on Tuscan dialects and is somewhat intermediate between the languages of Southern Italy and the Gallo-Romance languages of the North.
		Italian grammar Italian is written using the Latin alphabet.
		The letters J, K, W, X and Y are not part of the standard Italian alphabet, but are seen in imported words (such as jeans, whiskey, taxi).
	www.peee.org /en/Sicily (11914 words)

	Italy - Visit To Ancient Ostia
		When during the second Punic War, Rome was suffering terrible reverses at the hands of Hannibal, the Cumaean Sibyl and Apollo directed that the Magna Mater (a Phrygian goddess, Rhea, or Cybele) should be brought to Rome.
		The barracks of the fire companies show, scratched on two pilasters by the entrance door, names of firemen and an entire alphabet.
		Inside is a great courtyard and opposite the entrance a sort of alcove chapel of the imperial family, marble columns across the front, a mosaic pavement representing a sacrificial scene with altar, musicians, and bulls, then at the rear, a raised platform bearing five inscribed altars.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles33n/italy-history-5.shtml (2881 words)

	ZEUGMA Tarihçesi
		Those who cannot afford the passage, or are not admitted by Charon, are doomed to wander on the banks of the Styx for a hundred years.
		She was credited for introducing the Phoenician alphabet into Greece.
		Her attribute is usually a parchment scroll or a set of tablets.
	www.zeugmaweb.com /zeugma/english/dictionary-c.htm (5640 words)

	Virgil jerak.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On reaching Cumae, in Italy, Aeneas consults the Cumaean Sibyl, who conducts him through the Underworld and reveals his destiny to him.
		This is the English Consonantal System using symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
		The spelling of words often diverges considerably from how they are spoken, and English spelling is often considered to be one of the most difficult to learn of any language that uses an alphabet.
	www.jerak.org /en/Virgil (12467 words)

	Additions, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		Images have been added at: Waters and Landscapes, Narcissus, Divinities, Charybdis, and Aftermath of the Trojan War.
		Images have been added at: Map of the Underworld, Penelope, Palamedes, Nyx, NEREIDS, Io, HERACLIDES, Eurystheus, Eris, EPIGONI, Artemis, TROJAN LEADERS, TROJANS, SPARTI, The Era of Zeus, Sibyl 6 Cumaean, and Andromeda.
		For additions made recently see the growing alphabetical list at Short Entries.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/NewsAdditions.html (2758 words)

	PaleoJudaica.com
		There is, though, an unlikely place where both the prophets of Israel and the Cumaean Sibyl are honoured, and that is on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
		The idea comes from the poet Virgil, for in his fourth Eclogue he talks of a Cumaean prophecy coming true; he speaks of a virgin, the birth of a boy, the beginning of a golden age, with a new generation born from heaven.
		Linguists say the Armenian alphabet is one of the oldest in the world that is still in use.
	paleojudaica.blogspot.com /2005_12_01_paleojudaica_archive.html (11363 words)

	Beekeeping oddd.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		All Romance languages, those being most notably Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian, are descended from Latin, and many words based on Latin are found in other modern languages such as English.
		The Latin alphabet, derived from the Greek, remains the most widely-used alphabet in the world.
		It is said that 80 percent of scholarly English words are derived from Latin (in a large number of cases by way of French).
	oddd.org /en/Beekeeping (12015 words)

	New Educational Materials - Winter/Spring 2000
		The third set deals with the culture which influenced Latin and was in turn influenced by it.
		Features teaching materials on the Cumaean Sibyl, the scenes on the doors of Apollos temple (Aeneid 6), omens and prophecies in the Aeneid, Vergilian literary allusions in Milton, rhetorical figures in the Aeneid and Greek names in the Aeneid.
		Includes also: Wall size alphabet chart; map of Greece, and Tournament Wall Chart (for game as culminating activity).
	www.campanian.org /edumats-spr00.html (3518 words)

	Christianism.com - Addition 36 Addendum
		He reveals to us the forgers sitting down in their scriptoria, with sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, or tenth century ink and parchments, and with corresponding alphabets, to write works in the names of imaginary authors.
		were not only from one workshop, but from one hand, or if from many hands, certainly from those who had the same alphabet before their eyes, or same form of letters.
		But the Cumaean Sibyl herself seems to be the invention of the monks.
	www.christianism.com /html/add36a.html (11041 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch.
		The order of arrangement is that adopted by Marsand and other recent editors; but to prevent any difficulty in identification, the Italian first lines have been given throughout, and repeated in an alphabetical index.
		That language had never been totally extinct in Italy; but at the time on which we are touching, there were not probably six persons in the whole country acquainted with it.
		Some of Petrarch's biographers date his commencement of the study of Greek from the period of Barlaamo's first visit to Avignon; but I am inclined to postpone it to 1342, when Barlaamo returned to the west and settled at Avignon.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/17650/17650-h/17650-h.htm (19990 words)

	olifant.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		At Fiesole, for instance, we see Etruscan inscriptions written in the Phoenician runic alphabet which the Germanic tribes were to adopt prior to Christianity.
		Christianity - the religion of women and slaves, heir to Hebrew, Greek, Syrian and Latin alphabets - arose in the midst of imperial/colonial oppression by Rome of Israel as a proto-Gandhian non-violent revolution and was pacifist.
		First Constantine, then Charlemagne, then the Normans, were to wrench Christianity from pacificism to militarism and to invent the Crusade.
	www.umilta.net /olifant.html (12668 words)

	Beni Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Each letter of the alphabet is represented by several objects whose names begin with that letter.
		In this adaptation of the classic tale by a Caldecott Medal winner, the brother and sister duo are depicted in vivid colors with a computer-enhanced collage to present an almost theatrical interpretation to the story.
		Willy O'Dwyer jumped in the fire; variations on a folk rhyme.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Beni (552 words)

	M B F A- Mark Borghi Fine Art Inc - Eilhu Vedder (1839 -1923)
		Upon his return to Rome he starts work on Young Marsyas Charming the Hares, and starts to repaint The Cumaean Sibyl.
		He also toys with the idea of publishing his many manuscripts such as the one on the "phonic alphabet" he invented, and the Simple Simon book or his mythical King of the Salamanders.
		Aware of the publishers reluctance, he thinks of using the nom de plume of "Uhile Redder, an Armenia", or that of Vedderovius", for his Doubt and Other Things.
	borghi.org /american/vedder3.html (5044 words)

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