434 H. B. Dewing, 
So the personal pronoun of the third person, «vz0d. Cases are 
abundant in which eros and the other cases and genders of this 
word plainly carry an independent stress; for example: 
, ns 
UA YEH UEVOUS QUT. 
On the other hand, cases are far from rare in which ettot can have 
no full stress if the cursus is saved: 
Tov TET 00S abtod §usovdos. 
Others show ambiguity: 
paothel abtay anextevdnouy. 
ENEOOIWEV TG THY UNdwtnY aitod, 
In the last case neither «éz@ nor «vtos can be stressed if the cursus 
is saved. 
We should be very sceptical as to allowing the accented forms 
of the first and second personal pronouns to be counted as without 
stress; yet we find such a case as the following in Zonaras: 
Ovzx Ehchnoev ev Euoi xv@LOC. 
If the clausula is regular, ¢y must bear an ictus and éuoi be counted 
as the arsis, unless xecos be read, without stress. 
A great number of cases bring us face to face with the question 
of hiatus and elision. The usage of the classical writers would lead 
us to expect to find hiatus carefully avoided in the comparatively 
artificia) and imitative writing of the Byzantines. What we actually 
find in Zonaras, (to use him as an example), is this: first a great 
number of cases of hiatus which are partly justifiable as being “ weak ” 
—that is, after a long vowel or diphthong; second, a great number 
of cases handed down by the manuscript tradition in which hiatus 
occurs in its most objectionable form, namely cases which can be 
avoided by elision or crasis. For example: 
O ayo. 
TO Ovoud. 
@veuUcEto 1 Yur. 
CDTOV TE EXTELVE. 
On the other hand, elision seems to be frequent in the manuscripts: 
xotumuéevy 0” avrg. 
én’ éty (followed by éaé éry three lines below!). 
The manuscripts therefore, as expected, show no consistency and 
have no bearing on the question. In order to settle upon a prin- 
ciple the clausule of two writers who show care in observing the 
