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'AfjLrjvljd, Coll. 60, 18, gen. sing, from 'A^7]vija<i, 'Apiarija 

 Berl. Phil. IVoeh., 1886, No. 52, xx., and Evfayopco, 153, 154, 

 gen. sing, of 'Evfay6pa<i {cf. ''Ovacrayopav above), are difficult 

 of explanation and due perhaps to foreign influence. See 

 below, under Inflections, § 25, 3. 



5. d+w contracts to d in the gen. pi. of -d- stems. The 

 only example preserved is e7ra<yop,evav Coll. 59, 2. Cf. 

 Arcadian ipycovdv Coll. 1222, 47. 



6. € + a does not contract in Cyprian, but in the Idalian 

 Bronze Tablet (Coll. 60) £ becomes i according to § 7, i, 

 always with the parasitic y (see § 18, i), vis. in repxvtja, Coll. 

 60, 9, 18, 22 ; peirija 60, 26 ; areXija 60, 23 ; Karedijav 60, 27. 



arekrjv, acc. sing, from aTe\V]<i, Deecke's reading in Coll. 

 60, 10, is no exception to the above principle. This is not 

 to be taken as a contracted form for dreXia (cf. areXija 60, 

 23), i.e. dreXi], with added -v, as in case of d{v)8ptjd(p)Ta-v 

 Coll. 59, 2 (see § 29, i), but is rather the same formation as 

 is seen in Lesbian Sa/xoreXrjv (from Sa/xoTeX?;?) Coll. 304, A, 

 44 (see under Inflections, § 29, 8). Hence the form is to be 

 written areXi]v. 



Instead of Deecke's 7; /ce (= el /ce) Coll. 60, 10, 23, Meyer 

 {Gi: Gr.^ § 113, foot-note) suggests i){v) /ce. (On {v) see 

 § 23, 2.) This r]{v) he takes as the Cyprian contract form of 

 kdv. We should thus have the same combination of Ke and 

 av as in Homer; e.g. o^p dv fjuiv Kev A 187. But it is inad- 

 missible to assume contraction of ea to t] and is moreover 

 unnecessary. Meyer's unwillingness to accept r] as an inde- 

 pendent particle (related to but not identical with et) is not 

 well founded in view of the occurrence of ^ in this sense in 

 the Cretan inscription from Gortyna, e.g. iv., 31 ; v., 9. 



Outside of the Bronze Tablet €a remains unchanged, vis. 

 in %edvoip CoLL. 126, I ; Nea- jG. 



7. £-!-£ gives 11 in i]^e (for *6e;^e, i.e. *e-cre;^-e), Att. et%e, 

 Coll. 60, 21. Whether the same contraction takes place in 

 the infinitive of -w- verbs is uncertain. Deecke in Coll. 60, 

 10, 22 writes exw, i-c- for *e%e-ei^, Att. e;^ety. See below, 

 under Conjugation, § 32, 11. 



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