18i Austin Morris llaruion, 



listed (I. 25i?. 16 turn apiid Ndcssuni) and another (I. 247. 29 ti'inc 

 apiid Ndessum), which may be unintentional. In III and IV the 

 phenomenon occurs more frequently, and gives rise to two types, 

 ;' f and 6 l.- The ;' f types are peculiar in that the dissyllable in 

 each case but one is due to the vocalization of u in the rela- 

 tive pronoun. The instances are, in form III : siispectae adhuc 

 fidei (I. 247. 14), reiaturi quae audirent (I. 7. 5), explicare quae 

 poscebat (\. 135. 26), /uisse quod evenH (I. 140. 15); in form IV posse 

 quod ablatnm est (I. 129, 21, a four-word clausula) and possibly 

 exsurgens quam civiliter (I. 261. 15-16). All are final clausulae 

 except the last.^ Of (S "Q I find only 2 cases in form III in my 

 collections, both of which happen to be four- word clausulae (I. 8. 30 

 obiecti sujit praetcr nwreiu, II. 191. 21 iulatum est ante dictae), and 

 5 cases of IV (I. 72. 2 hdctenus super Alpibus, 124. 31 obsidia 

 praeter soiitum, 235. 27 discubuit inter ceteros, 241. 19 venaticiam 

 praedam caper et, 247. 13 invenerat apud Sirmium). To these may 

 be added a few cases from the rest of the work: in form III, I. 

 11. 22. quicquam geri posset; 223. 23 relinqucrat apud Carras: 

 292. 23 creverat ultra modum ; 294. 4 conlapsa est terrae motu ; 

 328. 28 gignitur apud Persas; II. 34. 8 caelitus posse labi; 41. 20 

 dimicans inter primos (cf. 172. 13) ; 43. 14 arcentia praeter pauca ; 

 95. 25 quiescere prope flunien (cf. 176. 31); 164. 11 numquam facta 

 fuigit; 269. 9 altius semet ferret — in form IV, I. 22. 16 aliud satis 

 validmn ; 130. 28 egerat praeter solitwn ; II. 53. 4 quaesita sunt licet 

 noxia; and perhaps I. 219. 25 magistrum et quosdam alios? Notice 

 that while Ammianus freely admits dissyllables with light accent, 

 he is chary of using those with heavy accent.^ 



1 For other cases outside the collections see p. 227, list of instances 

 in which the relative counts as a dissyllable. 



' 2 Neither militi quies data (I. 225. 29) nor copia data captavi (II. 152. 

 34) belong here. In the latter phrase Novak rightly takes exception to 

 captain \ he suggests deletain, but I read conipirssqiii (copssam) which is 

 very close to captain (V) and com pt a in (G). The other clausula is to be 

 compared with nocturna qtiies daret II. 48. 31, where since the first word 

 is penultimate, the cadence cannot have been III. Both are to be ex- 

 plained as form I, quies being pronounced with the accent on the vocalized 

 u {qiiies da ret, qiiies data). Cf. qiiics oportiina (II. 22. 8) curdtis et qihe'te 

 (I. 312. 6) : anrl p. 228 f. 



' In iiihnquam facta fingit (i. e. fingit ea quae numquam sint facta), 

 in venaticiam praedam caperet and the like, the sentence- accent must have 

 raised the stress of the first word at the expense of the second. In 

 pntentissimi regis instar (I. 312. 21) the preposition appeal's to bear a heavier 

 accent than its noun. 



