8 Chmies E. Bennett, 



strong form yiieV, we see in Homer, and occasionally in Attic, 

 unmistakable evidence of the same afifirmatory force, which 

 was original to this particle. 



That in these latter instances a " Contaviinationsbildung'' 

 fie has not been developed, must be ascribed to the early 

 differentiation in the meanings of fxev and fid, and the conse- 

 quent feeling that they were separate words, while Kev and 

 Ka, as long as they existed side by side, remained identical in 

 signification. 



3. ^e\afitvi[wv\, on coins. Coll. 176, 177, and ^eXa/xiVto?, 

 Sayce in Berl. Phil. Woch., 1884, No. 21, have «, while SaXa- 

 uiVLO'i, Coll. 148, represents the vulgar formation. The « is 

 probably attributable to Semitic influence. Deecke (on 176) 

 compares SeXa/ilv, a town in Galilee. The reading of Coll. 

 121, where Deecke suggests '^a\afiivLo<;, is quite uncertain. 



4. wpiaerv (aor., = copiaaro) Coll. 126, I has not devel- 

 oped its € from a by any phonetic process, but is simply an 

 illustration of the tendency, occasionally exhibited by the 

 sigmatic aorist, to assume the thematic formation. (Cf. the 

 same phenomenon in Homer, e.£: eTn^Tjaero t, 78 ; hvaero V 

 328). Perhaps the Cyprian form is due directly to Homeric 

 influence, as is undoubtedly the case with a number of words 

 in this dialect. See § 20, i. 



5. oaija CoLL. 41, formerly taken by Deecke {Bess. Beitr., 

 vi., p. 71 f.) for oa-ela, another form of oaLoq, is now read by 

 him quite differently. See Bess. Beitr., xi., p. 317. 



6. For Deecke's e in the inflection of nouns in -eu?, t] is 

 rather to be written, e.g. /SaacXrjfO'? not /3a(Ti\efo<i. See 

 below, under Inflections, § 28. 



7. The Cyprian name of the town of Citium was KeVtoi^, as 

 seen in \\.erLwv (gen. sing.) Coll. 59, i ; Kerir/fe? 60, i. So 

 also the abbreviated Kert. 57 and Ke. 195 on a coin. 



4. 



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Cyprian t corresponds regularly to primitive Greek 'n and 

 to T] of the other dialects (except to that Attic and Ionic n 



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