The author, after describing shortly the history of the philology of the Latin language, and alluding to the corruptions which were introduced into the science during the dark ages, proceeded to show that the prefix ve or vae must always be regarded either as an adjective signifying small, or an adverb having the force of the Latin parum or minus.

The term is to be found, in the opinion of the author, in most of the cognate languages of the great Caucasian branch of the human race, and still remains in Scotland under its Latin form ve, for the Latin V was undoubtedly pronounced like our W, [ve, wee.]