lO Charles E. Bemiett, 



8. The name of the city Idalium appears in Cyprian always 

 as 'HSaXioy; so Coll. 6o, i, 27; 'YLhaXiwv (gen. sing.) 59, i ; 

 'HSaXiot (loc.) 62, I ; the inhabitants, 'HSaXi?";f69 60, 2 ; 'HSo.- 

 \ir]ji 60, 31 ; abbreviated 'HSaXt. 205 ; 206. In 60, 16, 26 

 Deecke (<7<a^ /c"^.) takes the syllable e • as standing for the adjec- 

 tive 'HSaXm or 'HSa\ta«:a. The only reason for transcribing 

 the e' here as 'H- instead of 'E- lies in the fact that 'Y^aXiov 

 as found in classic Greek always occurs with long initial 

 vowel. 



9. Deecke in Coll. 6'^, i reads fr]iTw as aor. subjunctive 

 (= Att. et'TTft)). Ahrens {Philologiis, xxxvi., p. 17) had already 

 proposed fkitoi, which he explained as present indicative. 

 Deecke suggested f^irw on metrical grounds. But the word 

 cannot be correct. The Cyprian form would not be f^'jirw, as 

 Deecke maintains {Bezz. Beitr., vi., p. 79, 5), but peiirw, with i\. 

 as in Attic. Cyprian has r\ only as the equivalent of the Attic 

 €1 arising by compensative lengthening or contraction (see 

 below, § 14, 7 ; 15) not as the equivalent of the genuine diph- 

 thong €1, which eliTov had. That the «i did not arise here by 

 contraction from ^i-pe-feir-ov or *e-pe-pTr-ov, but was the gen- 

 uine diphthong ei, is shown by the Old Attic EIIIEN cia. iv., 

 22, b, 4 (450 B.C.) and frequently (see Meisterhans, Gravi- 

 inatik der AttiscJien Inschriftcji^, p. 79, Anm. 648) ; also by 

 Lesbian felirr^v, the tradition in Alcaeus 55, Sappho 28 

 (Bergk, Poctae Lyrici Gmeci^). 



10. On Ti for til {i.e. tj) in the 3d sing, of the subjunctive, 

 see below, under DipJitJiongs, § 13, 3, b. 



11. On T) arising by contraction, see § 14, 7. 



12. On T) arising by compensative lengthening, see § 15. 



Cyprian o answers regularly to primitive Greek o and to o 

 of the other dialects ; e.g. BdXrov Coll. 60, 26 ; 6t6 60, i ; 

 To'Se 102; Sopevat, 60, 5> ^5 ; eTrayo/xevdv 59, 2. 



1, 6vedr]K6 Coll. 72, i ; 74, 2 ; 75, 2 ; 120, 4 corresponds 



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