Accentual Cursus in Byzantine Greek Prose. 441 
to the secondary accent we must admit almost complete uncertainty 
at the outset. We dare not at present suppose that a secondary 
accent can be located in as arbitrary a way as it is in the Political 
Verses, where such an accent must be counted in every word which 
shows more than one syllable either before or after the word accent, 
because of the very nature of iambic meter. But the presence of 
a secondary accent may reasonably be recognized as a real factor 
in reading the cursus. Of one thing we may be sure: that every 
secondary accent must stand in such a position as to be separated 
by at least one syllable from the written accent of the same word. 
Beyond this it is all guesswork; in most clausulz there is not room 
enough for a secondary accent of any consequence, and it is safest 
to ignore it wholly. 
Another troublesome question is that of the accent of enclitics, 
and the acquired accent on the word preceding. It seems reasonable 
to hold that enclitics which have lost their accent should certainly 
not be read with a stress upon them, and so it seems to be in 
a majority of cases; for example : 
youve Tove évtvyov. Zon. 159, 9. 
But this case also appears in Zonaras: 
MCYTES Gol EOUEY. 164, 1. 
There is a further difficulty in reading the accent acquired from an 
enclitic. It is reasonable to believe that the acquired accent is 
weaker than the original accent of the word which takes on the 
accent from the enclitic; so the following case would seem to belong 
to the 4 form: 
EMOQEVETO TE HAL EMOMTTEY. Zon. 112; 23. 
But there is still the possibility of a 2 form, if the last syllable of 
énogeveto be stressed. Another case found frequently in Procopius 
of Caesarea may be cited here: 
olds TE Elvee. 
It would seem within reason to read the clausula as a regular 2 form 
without any stress on the ultima of ojos. At any rate, we should 
not hesitate to read form 2 in the following: 
Tavtn mM Elvee. 
It would appear clearer what should be done in such a case as this: 
tov avdon ynoir. _ Zon. 112, 23. 
A puzzling case is the following: 
bmoxeiodai of opEethovec. 
