To say truth, it is a meane full of uncertainty and danger.

an officer betrayed the city

[…] but there are some hints which, considering what afterwards did take place, lead me to suspect that even thus early the writer contemplated the possibility at least of being himself very intimately connected with the result of these airdrawn schemes.

In the Semitic languages, paragogic letters are added to the ordinary forms of words to express additional emphasis or a change in the meaning.