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no\if]nx^f ("-^0 dvopeai/ (12) 'Adava (24) 



\\drjvr)i i^'li)) 'Ad.tvaiai (22) (j)pii(THO(TVvai(^ijd) 



(fypaaiv (2) rjde (o) fypffxa^^ai (26) 



In this list there are no Ionic words which are not also epic. That 

 'Ad^vri is ei)ic, not Ionic, has been shown by v. Mess,i*^ since it appears 

 only in epic poets, and in one inscription from Naxos,i^o probably in 

 hexameter. Except in two words, which will be discussed a little later, 

 a jyunun is not represented by 7. All the epic forms are adopted bod- 

 ily from the epic, and in every case where they appear the Attic form 

 would be metrically impossible in that position in the verse. These 

 same words are found in the Attic form in other epigrams. Cf. noCprj 



with Koprf (23), d7ro(pdinevoio with (jiOifievov (79). 



That the Doric forms are taken from lyric poets and show their in- 

 fluence on the vocabulary of poetry is generally admitted.^si They are 

 always side by side with Attic forms, so that they cannot be regarded 

 as evidence of the native region of the author. 1^2 j^ order to explain 

 the form (ftpaalv, a form found elsewhere only in Pindar, v. Mess ^^^ 

 conjectures that the phrase <ppaaiu aX\a fxevoivav was common in' Boeotia 

 and thus crept inta the inscriptions of the adjoining country. It is, 

 however, unlikely that the contracted form fxevoivdv was common in 

 Boeotia in the sixth century, i^* and it is more probable that we have 

 in (f>pa(Tlv another evidence of the influence of lyric poetry, unless, 

 indeed, it may be also Attic. 



Fifth Century. 



apiaries (75) flpyaa-aaTo (123) InTroavvai (75) 



KovpoL (75) KuSaji'ii7ras (123) 'EXXaWi/ (75) 



^eli/' (83) TToXr/aj (126) TTO/c' (83) 



'A6r]vatrji (117) Tlvdayoprju (79) evaiofies (83) 



"Apeos (117) 2a\vfipiav (79) 



(f)iXo^vii]s (117) ^apvap,(voi (8l) 



We find here Ionic, or rather epic, forms as in the preceding centu- 

 ries. Again two words show -(»;. If such forms were used by natives 

 of Attica, the statement made above, that epic forms were used only 

 when the Attic form was metrically impossible, is incorrect. But if 



"9 p. 12. 



^'<* CoUitz u. Bechtel, Sanimlung d. gr. Dialekt-Inschriften, 5418. 



"1 Cf. Wilamowitz and Wagner (11. cc), and Wilhelm, JOAI 2. 244. 



152 Even Kbpa appears, JHS 13. 126, n. 18 ; and CIA IV, 373 i'^^, p. 91. 



"3 p. 21. 



"* See Ahrens, De Graecae Linguae Dialectis, Goettingen, 1839, I, 201. 



