Accentual Cursus in Byzantine Greek Prose. 437 
The demands of the cursus are here against elision, and the full 
form emt should be read, making form 4. 
One case of crasis occurs in the printed text: 
UMEOTOEWEY éig ToUNtow. 34, 14. 
Here the resolution of toiaiow into 1d éaiow would still leave a pos- 
sible regular form (introduced by an ictus on ic); hence no inference 
can be made. 
To sum up, there are two cases in which the requirements of the 
cursus plainly demand elision (1 and 3 of class V); there are eight 
cases in which the requirements of the cursus make elision impos- 
sible (class I); the remaining cases can form the basis for no cer- 
tain generalization, although eight cases in class I] may justly be 
made ground for a very strong presumption against elision. The 
evidence before us plainly indicates, first, that Zosimus rather care- 
fully avoided hiatus in his clausule; second, that in avoiding hiatus 
by elision he followed no consistent principle, but elided or omitted 
elision according to the demands of the cursus. This principle should 
be adopted in editing his text. In general elision is not expected, 
just as in the Latin accentual clausule. 
In Procopius of Gaza, Panegyric to the Emperor Anastasius 
(Migne, 87—3), all cases before punctuation were counted. Only 
seven cases of hiatus are found in the clausule of the text as 
printed. Of these two are cases of weak hiatus: 
On zai Umovior, 2808 A. 
mtwyot TLVES XEL HYEOTLOL * 2808 B. 
In the first case crasis is unlikely; in either it would violate the 
cursus rhythm. 
The remaining cases follow: 
1. 10 xtjua ehoyilov: Paral Of 
As the phrase stands, neither form 2 nor form 4 can be read, unless 
one goes to the unreasonable extreme of placing an ictus on 76 and 
subordinating the accent of xtjua; whereas the easy elision of “«” 
in ztjuc gives a clear case of form 2. 
2. Bontetv dé odx elyor* 2813 A. 
‘The situation here is reversed; the cursus requires that dé be not 
elided. The other cases are ambiguous or doubtful: 
3. 7) Jé hueteow MOMs, 2796 A. 
