Accentual Cursus in Byzantine Greek Prose. 443 
ciple followed in this matter, and a connection may be discovered 
between the old quantitative cursus and that of the later period 
which was based on accent, although this is scarcely possible if the 
accentual rhythm originated in Latin, as held by Havet and Meyer. 
Further the relative frequency of the different kinds of accent in 
clausule must be defined, in order to know whether the accents 
were of different value, as in classical Greek, or without distinction, 
as in Modern Greek. 
Part III.—Zostvs. 
The prose of Zosimus is taken as a good example of writing in 
which an accentual cursus is found with considerable regularity. 
A limited portion is chosen and the clausulz therein classified, in 
order to get enough evidence to furnish a cross-section of his prac- 
tice in the use of the cursus rhythm. All clausule before the heavier 
marks of punctuation in Book III? are treated in the following. 
First of all, the result of counting by written accents alone is as 
follows: from a total of 350 clausule there appear 205 cases of 
the 2 form, 75 of the 4 form, and 2 of the 6 form—a total of 282 
cases of the preferred forms (supposing provisionally the two cases 
of the 6 form to be regular), or 80.5 °/) of the whole number of cases 
counted. In other words, the written accent fits perfectly the regular 
patterns of the cursus in four fifths of all the cases. In this 80.5 °/, 
are included cases in which proclitics and enclitics stand in arsi. 
The 16 cases show the following words so used: 
The article: of (twice); 6 (twice); 4 (once). 
The negative: od (four times). 
The prepositions: éy (once); ic (twice). 
The enclitics: re (once); zz (twice); wov (once). 
There are also included in this 80.5°/,) 13 cases in which the 
pattern fits badly, in that the accent of a weak word carries an 
ictus in the rhythmical unit: 
1. navtenacw Hv: 134, 15. Cf. 145, 6. 
2. aita zai 6 vids. 133; 10. (Ck 166, 8. 
3. deadnua ti zEpadi,. 136, 6. | (C£-162, 4: 
4. tiv “Poucioy coyiy tod mootecyiouctos. 17 bas MO a 
5. Nioigeou zai Nioyaveen. 162, 22. 
6. chevow eivar éoyatouéyn. 156,-11; “Gf. 166,15. 


* Corpus Scr. Hyst. Byz. 
