EEE ror 
Accentual Cursus in Byzantine Greek Frose. 439 
1. éyew wria avov IB. 
2. DapBaids te 6 oteatnyos 74. 
3. &s to “Hociov 31 
4. Kooioos 6 ‘Advettew ilk 
5. 6 “Eoéytevs 175. 
6. 0 “Hoty dovios 172. 
7. xa Te avdxtooe 161. 
Two of these (1 and 2) could be remedied by a natural elision, the 
remainder by crasis, but the meter requires that they be read 
with hiatus. Tzetzes, then, is not consistent; elision is occasionally 
omitted metri gratia, though in general hiatus of any kind is rare. 
The indications are plain that the writers of Byzantine times had 
partly lost the feeling of abhorrence for hiatus which was fun- 
damental in the best writing of prose or verse with the Greeks of 
the classical period. The language written in the sixth century A.D. 
was no longer the living spoken language which it had been in the 
fifth century B.C. The use of an accentual cursus shows the presence 
of a new element; the pronunciation of rhetorical prose was guided 
by a stress accent, that namely of the spoken language, instead of 
the pitch accent of the earlier period. The feeling for quantity 
may have largely disappeared ; just so it seems plain that the feeling 
against hiatus had become much weaker.! 
It is remarkable that the situation with the Latin cursus is some- 
what similar, in that the accentual clausule of Latin writers are 
consistently read without elision. This fact is the more striking 
because the same contrast between the accentual cursus and the 
earlier quantitative cursus is thus found to exist in both Latin and 
Greek. Another point of contact here appears between the Greek 
and Latin accentual cursus.? 
We may illustrate what is proposed for the reading of clausule 
generally by a few cases from Zonaras. 
I. Cases in which elision is not present in the printed text of 
the Corpus. 
A. Irregular forms: 
GY ETE GKUTOV. 133, 18. 
otxadE aN EL, 82, 18. 
GLVETOVEVETO KUTO. SOR ue 
GWUcTE EvOEINn ORY. 196, 9. 

* Cf. W. Schmid, Der Atticismus, III 291, 292. 
2 On elision in Cicero’s clausulee see Th. Zielinski, Das Klauselgesetz 
in Ciceros Reden, Leipzig 1904, pp. 28,29. On elision in the late Latin 
cursus writers (beginning with the fourth century A.D.) see Havet, Sym- 
machus, §§ 209, 215; Meyer, Gesam. Abh. II, pp. 258, 261. 
