34 CJiarlcs E. Bennett, 



Meister, Berl. Phil. Woch., 1885, No. 51, col. 1604, reads 

 Coll. 103 as roDTaKco, i.e. tco wraKco "des Ohrenkranken," 

 and 104 as tcottcotw, i.e. rw cnroorw "des Taiiben." Both these 

 conjectures are extremely doubtful. 



3. Aphaeresis of i is to be assumed in o'l (v) tw, i.e. o'l l{v) 

 T(S Coll. 60, 31. Deecke also assumes aphaeresis of a in 

 OeMi a\{\y ; but a is written, and the reading labors under 

 too many difficulties to be accepted as correct. So Hall's 

 Ta{v)^e 'v 'A7roX(X)a)i/t {/our. A^n. Or. Soc, xi., p. 223) = Coll. 

 76, cannot be regarded as certain in view of Cesnola's plate 

 {Cyprus, Plate II., 10). 



Deecke's ov yap rl iinaTah Coll. 68 is best explained by 

 aphaeresis of « (see Allen, Versification in Greek Inscriptions, 

 p. 74) rather than by assuming a hiatus and shortening of the 

 I before o-t, though the latter is proposed by Deecke {Bezz. 

 Beitr., vi., p. 80). 



4. Synizesis is maintained by Deecke for Qeua Coll. 68, 4, 

 and ^eot? 68, 2, with reason, if these words really begin hex- 

 ameters, which is not certain. Synizesis in ')(pov in Coll. 88 

 is uncertain. 



5. Diaeresis is claimed by Deecke, Coll. 68, 3, in o' vo ', 

 which he takes for ov. This seems hardly possible. Diaere- 

 sis in such a word would be surprising under any circum- 

 stances. The parasitic f (see § 17, 2) is not elsewhere found 

 after o, and even if it were, we should expect the last syllable 

 of the word to appear as vu ; not as z'o •. The fact that no 

 character has yet been found for v?^ • cannot be held to sup- 

 port Deecke's view. If the sound had existed, the character 

 for it would have existed also. On a similar view advanced 

 by Deecke for Aajariaao Coll. 58 ; Aaja<pd<; 6 "Ajapo<; 31, i ; 

 32, I, see § 18, 2. 



Consonants. 

 17. 



F- 

 1. Initial f is regularly retained in Cyprian, always in the 

 Bronze Tablet. The instances are pdva^ Coll. 18, i ; 59, 2; 



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