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(h) Aphaeresis. A. 1, 430, rura Graece clpaupa dicuntur. 

 aphaeresis ergo sermonem fecit Latinum. With this compare 

 the following etymologies which are given without comment: 

 Boaulia, A. 6, 107; 7, 662 (caulam bubus fecit); carceres, 

 A. 1, 54; 5, 145; G. 3, 104 (quasi arcer ab arcendo); caulae, A. 

 9, 59 (Graecum nomen 'c' detracto) ; Caulon, A. 3, 553 (Aulon 

 mons est etc. ) ; corthia, A. 3,92 (alii . . . quasi ortina . . . 

 quod inde vox oriatur); Segesta, A. 1, 550 (Egesta); A. 5, 

 718 (Acestes). 



{i) Khotacism. A 4,219, aras (asas), Valerios ( Valesios), 

 Fiirios (Fusios), etc. 



(k) Representation of certain Greek sounds in Latin, 

 i. <f. apricus, A. 5, 128; 6, 312 (quasi arsp <fpiy.ri<s). 

 Africa, A. 5, 128; 6, 312 (quasi arep <ppt/.r/g). 

 herba, G. 1, 120 {<pop,3r;). 

 ii. Spiritus asper. Formiae, A. 7, 695 (inmutato H in 



F . . . a~o r^9 opij.TJ'i), 



Septem, B. 2, 11 (in multis enim nominibus, 

 quae in Graeco aspirationem habent, nos pro 

 aspiratione 's' ponimus: inde est . . . pro 

 hepta 'septem'). 



aptum^, A. 4, 482; 11, 202 d-d rob a-zeaOai). 



iii. Digamma, Belus, A. 1, 642 (El . . . addita 

 digammo . . . ). 

 Velia, A.6, 359 (Elia . . . accepit digammon . . .). 

 In a number of etymologies the recognition of any un- 

 usual phonetic possibility is so doubtful that they have not 

 been included under this head. If Servius derives 'Africa' 

 from «>£y <fpr/--oi in one part of his commentary, from arsp 

 <fpiy.ri<s in another, he probably means in each case only 'a 

 privative.' So with the explanations of 'Amazon' (quasi 

 (ivso !J.a%oo) and 'apricus' (quasi azsp tppUr,^). In other notes 

 * a privative ' is indicated by the word ' non ' or ' sine ' : Ache- 

 ron, A. 6, 107 (quasi sine gaudio); Alexis, B. 2, 1 (quasi sine 

 responsione);' aminneum, G. 2, 97 (quasi sine minio); ato- 

 mos, B. 6, 31 (quia ro//r/> non recipiunt). The 'sine' which 

 appears in another group of etymologies perhaps means only 

 'se', although Servius makes no such definite statement on 



