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cumstances to discredit Trori? in Cyprian, especially as t in 

 this dialect regularly suffers assibilation ; but the assumption 

 that TTOTi? existed beside Trocrt? in the same dialect is entirely 

 untenable. Another fact which makes against Deecke's 

 reading is that the word never has the sense of ' lord ' in 

 Greek, a sense which he attaches to it in the present in- 

 stance. 



23. 



Loss of A^asa/s. 



1. Before a consonant in the same word the nasals v, ji, y 

 were always dropped. This is generally indicated by putting 

 the omitted nasal in parenthesis. The instances are the 

 following : — 



i) Omission of v. 



a{v)hpij d{v)Tav (Att. avhpidvTa) CoLL. 59, 2 ; u{v)6pco7ro'? 

 60, 3; d{v)Tl 60, 5, 15, 17; 'An6{v)ra (i^) 147; A(v)rL(l)a/j.o<; 

 83 ; 'ApiaT6<pa{v)To<i 28 ; i7n6{v)ra 60, 9, 19, 22 ; ^KTefd{v)Spo) 

 46; 47 ; Evfd(v)6r} 163 ; Evfd{v)6€f:o<i 161 ; 162 ; EvFe\6o{v)ro<i 

 165; 167; 168; 169; l6{v)Ta 60, 23; 'Ovdaa{v)TO'i 30; ird{v)ra 

 60, 10, 19, 22 ; 68, 4 ; Ta\u{v)Twv 60, 7 ; rd{v)Se 60, 26; yO, 2 

 88, i; T6{v)8e 59, 2; 60, 13, 25; 72, i; <^a(v)Taaio) 81 

 d{v)hpLd{v)rav Berl. PJiil. IVoc/i., 1886, No. 42, col. 1323 

 a{v)8pLd^ Ber/. PJiil. WocJi., 1 887, No. 12, col. 380. 



2) Omission of ^. 



7re{/x)(f)aijLepa)V CoLL. 59, 2 ; ' A\a{/x)7rpij drat {cf. the present 

 "Alambra, twenty minutes' ride west of Dali," Cesnola, 

 Cyprus, p. 87). Meister's conjecture of o{p)^d\vri\ in his 

 new reading of Coll. 41 {Bcrl. PJiil. Wocli., 1887, No. 52, 

 col. 1644) is quite uncertain. 



3) Omission of -y- 



Probable in "0(7) A;a(r) to? Coll. 60, 9; lla{^)Kpa- 62, 2. 



In Pamphylian inscriptions v disappears similarly before t 

 or 8 in the same word ; t under such circumstances changes 

 to 8, e.g. ireSeKaiSeKa {i.e. TrevTeKadSeKo) CoLL. 1 267, 5 ; e^dycoSt 

 (i.e. e^uycovTi) 1 267, 16, 20 ; yevcoSac 1 267, 20; 'EcrT/reS/tu? 

 ('AcTTreVSto?) 1259. 



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