^{page 360 note 1} The case is not of course quite the same, as the f is not lost before i regularly in Spanish. But the parallel of this loss off is so interesting that I am tempted to call attention to it here. In the Epic of the Cid and other old works the f is constant, it is lost in later Spanish in many words, replaced by an h whish is not sounded. In some words f or his ‘used promiscuously to this day, as fatiega or hanega,’ which shows how vain it is to assert that this could not be the case with the digamma in the Homeric age.