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category, does not belong here, but the F is part of the root. 

 {Cf. Cyprian eppe^a Coll. 71.) ^aai,X€Vfo{v)TO'i, 59, i, also 

 mentioned by Meyer in the same connection, should be 

 omitted. The syllabic text gives only pa' si ' le ' u\ i.e. 

 jSaaCKev-; -/ro(f)To? is conjectural. 



The development of this parasitic p occurs regularly be- 

 tween every v and a following « or a. As an exception must 

 be noted vev^d/xevof; (i.e. eTr-ev^d/xevo'i ; on v-, see § 33, 4) 

 Coll. 45, 2. Deecke's reading here has been questioned by 

 Hall {Jour. Am. Or. Soc, xi., p. 216), who suggests that the 

 sign for u ' here is a mistake of the stone-cutter for ;/// •, lack- 

 ing simply the lower transverse stroke of the sign for that 

 syllable. This mi ' he takes for fii,{v), with omission of the 

 final V (see § 23, 2, 5), regarding it as the pronoun of the ist 

 person; see § 31, 2. But the omission of final v before a 

 vowel is inadmissible ; see § 23, 4. Hence I believe Deecke's 

 reading is to be sustained. 



Meyer, Gr. Gr.l^ § 239, suggests that vev^dfievo^ may be 

 for fev^dfievo';, comparing the Hesychian glosses ue'crt? (i.e. 

 fe<Ti<i) ■ (TToXi] ; vdXr] {i.e. pdXr)) • ctkcoXtj^. But I see nothing 

 to support this hypothesis, and should be inclined to attribute 

 the glosses to a later stage of the dialect. 



The above phenomenon of the development of a parasitic 

 fr is not confined to the Cyprian, but occurs also in other dia- 

 lects ; e.g-. Boeotian BaKevpai Coll. 458 ; Corcyraean dpicr- 

 revfovra Roehl, Inscriptiones Graecae Antiquissimae, 343. 



3. The f of TtfMoxdpiFo<i Coll. 39, i ; 193 and KvirpoKpd- 

 Tifo^ 26 is difficult to explain. These words are both -i- stems, 

 and as such their genitives should be Ti/xo^dpio's, KvirpoKpd- 

 Tto9. That f cannot have developed regularly between i and 

 o seems clear. Spitzer {Laut. Ark. Dial., p. 51) suggests the 

 following explanation. It is to be assumed that the inter- 

 vocalic f in Cyprian gradually lost its sound and disappeared 

 as in other Greek dialects. Evidences of this have been 

 given above in such forms as ^a(TiXr]o'^ i6pi]o<i, as against the 

 earlier ^aaiXi)po'^, Uprjfo^, etc. That the forms without p are 

 in general the younger there can be no reason to doubt. 



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