Secunda (Hexapla)

There is contention as to whether Origen wrote the Secunda, or perhaps a contemporary of his, or that it was a copy of a preexisting older text. There is also phonetic evidence for the Secunda being a preexisting text. By the time of Origen, were pronounced [iː ɛː], a merger which had already begun around 100 BCE, while in the Secunda, they are used to represent Hebrew /eː aj/. == Orthography ==

The text of the Secunda uses various Greek diacritics: A diaeresis is used on the character iota ( to ) precisely when iota occurs after a vowel, except when indicates /iː/. This is completely independent of whether the segment is consonantal or vocalic in Hebrew, as the following examples attest: These signs were also an addition of the 8th or 9th century. == References ==