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As to the relation of the two forms /e/ao? and [apo<i, it seems 

 quite probable, in view, of Skrt. isird-, that the latter is the 

 primitive one, and that lep6<i is of secondary origin, with -epo? 

 for -apo<i after the analogy of (f)o^ep6^, SoXe/ao?, rpofiepoi;, etc. 

 This is Osthoff's view. See MorpJiologische Untej'siichuugcn, 

 iv., p. 149 ff. Cf. Meyer, Gr. Gr.^ § 94. 



3. KaTaaTTjcre CoLL. 12/ cannot be a Cyprian form for 

 Karea-rdae. The syllabic text seems to give ka' tw se- tc ' se '. 

 But the principles of the Cyprian syllabary would demand 

 ka' ta' sa' te ' se ' to represent KaTacrrrjae. This has led 

 Voigt {Be::::. Bcitr., ix., p. 170) to conjecture a mistake of the 

 stone-cutter, by which the ta ■ and te • in the second and 

 fourth syllables were interchanged. In that case we should get 

 ka ■ te ■ se ' ta ' se •, i.e. KaTecnda-e, — the regular form, found 

 frequently in other Cyprian inscriptions, e.g. Coll. 27, 2 ; 28. 



4. Equally uncertain is 'jra{v)TaK6paaT0'^, the reading pro- 

 posed by Deecke in Coll. 68, 2,-which he takes {Bea::. Beitr., 

 vi., p. 79) for iravTaKopea-ro'i, i.e. an emphatic aKopecrro^, for 

 which Deecke compares TravTapKno^, etc. But this change 

 of € to a is difficult to justify either physiologically or by any 

 etymological combinations. Moreover, the word is suspicious 

 in its composition. iravTapia-ro'^, which Deecke compares, is 

 not sufficiently analogous to give much probability to his 

 view of the word. We ought to have instances of some 

 verbal beginning with alpha privative, to which iravT- has 

 been prefixed, such .as iravT-d^aro';, iravr-d/cpiTO'i, before 

 crediting so remarkable a form as 7ravT-a-K6peaTo<?, even did 

 it occur with «, and not a, as here. Hall {/onr. Am. Or. Soc, 

 xi., p. 220) after a careful re-examination of the inscription in 

 New York reads here 7rd{v)ra %c6pai SaJ9, taking Deecke's 

 sa- as an r, which he insists is correct. But 8w<? surely can- 

 not be right. 



5. As to the possible origin of the peculiar ending -av, in 

 the ace. sing, of consonant stems, from -oiv {cf. era^iov for 

 €'Tni/j,-ov), see below, under Inflections, § 29, i. 



6. The a in /xe/xva/xevot CoLL. 71,2 must be taken as short. 

 if the inscription (with Allen, Versification in Greek biscrif- 



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