440 H. B. Dewing, 
B. Regular forms: 
moyileto 0 Feds. 85, 11. 
unvodévta annyyechar. 135, 4. 
ov d& Hyvonoas. 140 
Baothevoese o& Ev avtais. 150, 18. 
II. Cases in which elision is present in the printed text of the Corpus. 
A. Irregular forms: 
maclous vn’ chan hor, 88, 3. 
Hoon En’ ave * 355, 2. 
B. Regular forms: 
Toounk avt’ adtod. 190, 18. 
Oouyxcoly En’ avTHY, 99, 15. 
Disregarding the manuscripts, the clausulee under I, A and II, B should 
be read with elision; those under I, B and II, A without elision. 
In order to justify still further such procedure in a writer where 
many cases occur in which elision must be considered in reading 
the clausule, 200 cases were counted in Zonaras, reading with 
elision every case in which a short vowel which could be elided 
stands in a clausula, with the following result: preferred forms 
60.5 + 9/); avoided forms 39+°/).1 The preferred forms now stand 
to the others in the ratio of 8 to 2 instead of 3 to 1 as before, when 
elision was not so introduced. Even so there are enough regular 
forms to suggest plainly the cursus rhythm in Zonaras; but it is 
plain that this procedure is wrong when a similar test is made, in 
Demosthenes: 21 cases of elision in clausule are found in about 200 
cases in the Androtion in., and the result of introducing the un- 
elided forms makes altogether one less regular accentual clausula 
in the total; that is, in 10 cases the change to the unelided form 
makes a preferred form of accentual clausula, while in 11 cases the 
change destroys a preferred form. 
Zonaras with elision 75°/) reg.; without elision 60.5 °/, reg.! 
Demosthenes _,, fo lind Beans - - 41015 
Zonaras loses 14.5 °/9, Demosthenes .5°/9; this of itself makes it al- 
most certain that Zonaras’ clausule are not to be read with con- 
sistent use of elision, although it is recognized that those of De- 
mosthenes should. 
There are several other questions which occasionally arise in the 
treatment of clausule, which are here noted in passing. In regard 

1 Counting by written accents. 
