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in 2, 143.* Brugmann thinks there is no valid reason for departing 

 from the MSS. where they all give *s ov or ecus ov.t It is, of course, 

 possible that is ov arose from analogy with /xt^pt ov and axpi ov% ; or 

 is ov may be related to is '6, as eis"Ai8ov to (ls"Ai8r)v.§ 



But yet it seems strange that after is o became fully established, 

 meaning " until," even in Homer, another form, is ov, should have been 

 able to make its way against it, especially as is o was used by early writers 

 far oftener than cixpi ov or pixpi °"? «s °> "until," is found in Homer 48 

 times ; in Hesiod once ; in the Homeric Hymns once ; in Herodotus 53 

 times in all MSS. pixP 1 °^ ™ not found before Herodotus, and is used 

 by him but seven times ; axpi ov is not found at all before Herodotus, 

 and is used by him but once. || No occurrence of is ov is quoted from 

 any other classical writer, nor is it quoted in any Ionic inscription. Fur- 

 thermore, it seems to me that it is a somewhat suspicious circumstance 

 that of the 11 cases of the reading is ov, seven are in Book 4, and two 

 are among the first occurrences of is o and is ov in Book 5. We know 

 that ea>s ov became common in post-classical times, If and survives in 

 modern Greek as £>o-ov (or ao-ov). Gregorius Corinthius, writing about 



lloO A. D., says : avri roil eojff oil, is o \eyovaiv. 'Hpoboros * is o i£(l\oi>\ 



from which we may infer either that the expression «W ov was in common 

 use in the living language when Gregorius wrote, or that it had been in 

 common use at some time between the classical period and the time of 

 Gregorius. From these facts we may perhaps infer that some one or 

 other, to whom the form ems ov was well known, either carelessly or 

 deliberately changed the form is 6 into is ov (eW ov, 2, 143). Of course 

 it is impossible to reach any certain conclusion, but on the basis of 

 the evidence at hand it seems to me that is 6 is to be preferred. 



(cos. 



ewff is used, meaning " until," three times. (See list below.) 



* See Stein, Herodotos, 5th ed., 1883, note on 1, 67, line 21. Cf. Smyth, Ionic 

 Dialect, p. 453, footnote 4. 



+ Brugmann, Gr. Gram. 3 , p. 5G3. i 



J Cf. Smyth, op. cit., p. 608 ; Brugmann, op. cit., p. 563. 

 § Cf. Brugmann, op. cit., p. 395. 

 || See Fuchs, op. cit., p. 130. 

 1 Cf. Jannaris, Hist. Greek Gram., § 1785. 

 ** Gregorius Cor., ed. Schaefer, §63, p. 472. 



