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dn-int, and not to be confounded with Sw-, ho-. Cf. Deecke- 

 Siegismund in Curtius' Stndien, vii., p. 248. 



2. Final o in Cyprian when preceded by a consonant inva- 

 riably changed to v. The instances are airv Coll. 60, 8, 17 ; 

 r^evoLTV 60, 29 ; efptjrdaarv 60, 14 ; evfrprjTaaarv 60, 4 ; ooplaerv 

 126, I. So in Arcadian; e.g. airv Coll. 1222, 4; aXKv 1222, 

 40. The Thessalian and Lesbian also have airv, and the Pam- 

 phylian shows the change of © to u not only in case of final ©, 

 but als-o elsewhere ; e.g. i^coXdaerv Coll. 1267, 8 ; poiKV7ro\i<i 

 1267, 14; ^ooXij/xevv^ 1267, 13. 



Arcadian Karv (for Kara) Coll. 1222, ii, 29, has not yet 

 been found in Cyprian. Nor does Kara itself occur. 



3. So also in -do the ending of the gen. sing, of masculine 

 -d- stems, o usually changes to v, preparatory to undergoing 

 contraction to -av, e.g. Sefilav Coll. 66 ; MapaKav 29 ; but 

 we find do- in Kvirpayopdo Coll. 79 and Aajarlado 58. On 

 these see below, § 14, 4. 



4. vvWrjKe is read by Deecke, Coll. 45, 3, as a local varia- 

 tion of 6ve6r}Ke, i.e. dvedrjKC ; see above, § 5, i. The only 

 difficulty with this reading is that the character for // • (AA) 

 has a superfluous horizontal line drawn over its top. This 

 has led Voigt {Quaestiones de Titnlis Cypriis, p. 282, and later 

 in Bezz. Beit}\, ix., p, 166) to conjecture an error of the stone- 

 cutter, whereby the horizontal line was made over, instead of 

 under, the rest of the character. With that change we should 

 get the regular syllabic sign for mi \ This combined with 

 the other characters gives [uv eOrj/ce, in which Voigt takes 

 fiiv as the equivalent of fi€. But i) it seems more natural to 

 regard the horizontal line above the u • as an accidental 

 scratch than as a mistake of the engraver. 



2) fiip for fiev, i.e. fie, before an initial vowel, is not admissi- 

 ble (see above, § 7, 2, ad Jin.). 



3) eOTjKe is not the proper word for a dedicatory inscrip- 

 tion, as this evidently is. The regular word is ovedrjKe or 

 dve6r)K€, which occurs frequently (see above, § 5, i). 



4) Voigt's objection to the form of the word {uv- for 6v-) is 

 not well founded, and is the result of a false conception of 



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