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Hall's latest reading of Coll. yG {Jour. Am. Or. Soc, xi., 

 p. 223), which he has again examined in the Cesnola collec- 

 tion in New York since the appearance of Collitz's Sannnluug, 

 is rav peiKova Td{v)8e V ^A7r6[\(\)cova], — i.e. 'to Apollo,' in 

 which he takes V for Iv with aphaeresis of the I (cf. ot (v) for 

 0? l{v) Coll. 60, 31). His reading, if correct, would, in view 

 of the preceding Td{v)8€, indicate that « had disappeared 

 rather than i, and might be taken as furnishing some slight 

 evidence of the existence of iv ; but in view of the incom- 

 pleteness of the inscription and the possibilities of combina- 

 tion, Hall's reading cannot be considered safe enough to base 

 conclusions upon. Yet it is quite possible that the form tv 

 may have existed in Cyprian and may yet be brought to light. 

 At all events, until instances of Iv before vowels are discov- 

 ered, we have no right to declare that Iv had driven tv out of 

 use in Cyprian ; any more than we should be justified in claim- 

 ing the same for the Arcadian dialect on the basis of Arca- 

 dian Iv ufxepaLf Coll. 1222, 4, and Ivajovrco 1222, 19, assuming 

 that instances of iv before vowels in Arcadian had not yet 

 been found. Arcadian Iv d/jbipai^ and Ivayovro) when viewed 

 in the light of iv 'ApKahlat Coll. 1200, 3 ; iv Ipdvai 1233, 5 ; 

 iv 'OXvvTriai 1183,6 ; iv dywai 1231, are seen to be encroach- 

 ments of Iv upon the domain of iv. Cyprian IvaXaXia-fieva is 

 perhaps most safely explained in the same way. 



Further light is thrown upon the question by the Cyprian 

 forms fjbiv Coll. 71 {/xev earaaav) and fii Coll. i, i ; 2, 2 

 {fjLc KaredrjKe). These forms fiev and fii are unquestionably 

 for p,€, the ace. sing, of the first personal pronoun. On the 

 origin of fiiv from fxe, see § 31, i. fii is certainly to be con- 

 sidered as fii{v) (see § 31, 2), and as developed from /xeV 

 before a consonant, just as Iv from iv. Only the initial vowel 

 of ecrraaav in CoLL. 71 has preserved to us the form /jLtv. 

 Can we doubt that, if we had preserved to us instances of the 

 preposition {iv, Iv) before initial vowels, it would appear as iv? 



On Hall's reading of fiL{v) in Coll. 45, i, before an initial 

 vowel and Voigt's reading of fiiv in 45, 4, also before an initial 

 vowel, see § 23, 4 ; 9, 4. 



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