Accentual Cursus in Byzantine Greek Prose. 447 
The final results thus obtained are here set down beside similar 
results from other writers, arranged according to the regularity of 
their cursus. It will be readily seen that these figures are quite 
different from those given by Litzica, though in most cases the 
passage chosen for a test was the same as the ground covered 
by him. In the case of AZneas of Gaza, it now appears that there 
is twice as much irregularity present as the 16°/) which Litzica 
found, and little, if any regard is paid to the law. In Sophronius 
the range of regularity is apparently limited to the 2 form—a pheno- 
menon which may be paralleled in only a few other writers. 


Forms 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 | Reg. |Irreg. 
| Zosimus' L.7+| 2.5+(65.74+] 3.742494] .84] 1.14 |90.0+] 9.8+ 
L194 2 3) 0 0 97 3) 
O 
Andreas of Crete? |0 4 79 2 15 O O 94 6 
5 



Sophronius? 


| eat (53: 6 25 5 0) 88 {12 
Basilius of Seleucia} i7+|0 [74.74 9.54113.0+) sto [ez.7+2.0+) 
Synesins® § [5 fio 68 [5 be |o lo ko bo 
| Aineas of Gaza? 3 10 49 21 15 2 0 64 36 
Agathias + 









It is not clear what should be done with the residuum of rebellious 
clausule in such a writer as Zosimus or Agathias. Here we are 
brought face to face with a question which is raised by Meyer's 
discussion. Meyer does not consider the law an inner law of the lan- 
guage itself, which would absolutely control the clausulee of any writer 

suggest. For example, such a case as air@ zai 6 vids is a 2 form ac- 
cording to written accents alone, but not by any means certainly to be 
read so, on account of the heavy accent immediately preceding x«é. If 
such cases are separated, the possible error is avoided. Zosimus shows 
only four such cases (see pp. 443—4) in 280 clausule ; that is, by reading 
the clausule by the last two written accents, we are led astray in only 
1.4+°/, of the total. 
1 Book III in the Corpus. 
2 Orat. VII, Migne 87, 3, first 100 clausule. 
5 Orat. I, Migne 97, first 100 clausule. 
* Book I in the Corpus, first 100 clausule. 
5 Orat. II, Migne 85, 
° De Regno, Migne 66, first 100 clausule. 
7 Theophrastus, Migne 85, first 100 clausule. 
Remark. Clausule are counted only before the heavier marks of 
punctuation. 
Trans. Conn. Acap., Vol. X1V. 30 Aprin, 1910. 
