42 CJiarlcs E. Bennett, 



vowels, five before consonants, and one where no other sound 

 follows. We can hardly infer from this that the disappear- 

 ance of -s took place through the medium of its change to 

 the rough breathing, since in that event we should expect it 

 to be confined to those cases where the following word had 

 an initial vowel. Meyer {Gr. Gr.,'^ § 305) in judging of the 

 Boeotian proper names in -€i for -eis assumes that the pecu- 

 liarity originated before initial vowels, and was subsequently 

 extended in its use. The same may be true for the Cyprian. 

 But since this peculiarity is confined almost exclusively to 

 proper names and in them is found in the whole field of 

 Greek inscriptions, it may be better to assume a weak pro- 

 nunciation of final -s in this class of words. This, however, 

 would leave Cyprian ra, kcl, and tto- unexplained. It should 

 be noted that, while ku and ra (for /ca? and ra?) are found in 

 the above-mentioned instances, the full forms Kd<i and Ta<i 

 are frequent, e.g. Td<i dvda(cr)a<; Coll. 33, i ; ra? ev^coXd^ 59, 

 3; Ka<i e^ 60, 6. rd 'EreoBafiw iridt CoLL. 135, which 

 Deecke (ad loc.) suggests may be for either Td<^ 'EreoSaytia? 

 or rdi 'EreoSdfia, is better taken with Dittenberger as rd, 

 ^EjTeoSdfia, wWt, in which rd is the regular Cyprian form of 

 the Homeric rrj 'take,' and 'EreoSd/xa is vocative. Cf. t 347 

 Ky/cXoji/r, rrj, TTi'e olvov. This would add another illustration 

 of the influence (already beyond question) of the Homeric 

 diction upon the Cyprian vocabulary. Cf. Deecke-Siegismund 

 in Curtius' Studicn, vii., p. 262 ; Smyth, On Poetical Words 

 in Cyprian Prose, Am. yojir. P/iil., viii., 4. 



eu^coXd Coll. 27, 2, which might also possibly be taken for 

 a genitive or dative (see § 25, 5), is, I believe, best taken as 

 a nominative. Cf. dpd 'Amo) Coll. 97 ; dpd Ail Bcrl. Phil. 

 Woch., 1886, No. 41, ix. 



Deecke's kcl iron Coll. 6^, i ; [ko] 6varol<i 6^, 2 ; and 

 0-1(9) (for Tt?) 126, I, are doubtful. 



2. Deecke {Bess. Bcitr., vi., p. 81 ; p. 147) seeks to estab- 

 lish the loss of intervocalic o-, or at least its change to the 

 rough breathing in two instances, viz. ^pov^wl (for ^povetiiaC) 

 Coll. 68, 4 and ^nidioU (for *hipid)a-oi<i, i.e. *Bifi6vrioi<i) 69. 



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