The Clausula in Avimianus Marcellinus. 223 



Rigomagum opjiidumst I. 80. 11 



Aquiloni obnoxiast I. 167. 6 



interim consentaneumst I. 287. 29 



Persidos Gedrosiast I. 336. 1 



velut solariumst I. 337. 2 



properare dispositust II. 260. 13 



cedidisse existimatust II. 271. 7 



Tritumst quadriduum II. 48. 8 



These examples are hardly numerous enough to establish the use 

 of aphaeresis be3^ond doubt, but it should be pointed out that while 

 cases in which it apparently must occur are rare, there are many 

 in which it ma}^ occur. I refer to clausulae like vivus exustus est, 

 fidentius absolutus est, which may be classed either without aphae- 

 resis under forms II and IV respectively or with aphaeresis under 

 I and III, and also to a few clausulae like dispositunt est consuiumato 

 (II. 195. 25), which may be read either est consutmnato (I /3) or 

 dispositumst consurnmato (III 6). 



Of syncope I find only one example : in the clausulae exempta 

 nunc valida sunt (II. 138. 20) we must assume that valida was pro- 

 nounced valda} It may be that in stivam adprehendit (I. 14. 10) we 

 have another case (adprendit), but there the clausula is uncertain. 

 Most of the phenomena which we have to deal with under the 

 head of syllabication are cases either of synizesis or dialysis — that 

 is to say, either of diminution in the normal number of syllables in 

 a word caused by the transformation of vocalic / and u into conso- 

 nants, or conversely of increase in the normal number of syllables 

 caused by the transformation of consonantal i and u into vowels. 

 Examples of S3'nizesis are given in the following list. 



-ti etiam I. 268. 5 ; II. 142. 21 (cf. Consentius 395. 3) 

 negotium I. 55. 24 



gignentium I. 332. 5 



repugnantia I. 254. 10 



reverentiam I. 246. 25 



laetior ^ II. 83. 11 



Terentio II. 124. 8 



notitm II. 171. 22 



indicantia II. 218. 7 



of form II (vi'vics exustus est) or of form IV {^Jidentms absolutus est), except 

 in the cases of aphaeresis here cited and in exempta nunc valida sunt (II. 

 138. 20), where I assume syncope {valda) : see below. 



' But tliere are cases in which this word has the normal trisyllabic 

 pronunciation : cf. validus et castellis I. 30. 5 ; validis iujigeretui- II. 243. 7. 



