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2. Certain short words ending in a nasal, and closely con- 

 nected in thought with the following word, omit the nasal, 

 as in the interior of a word. These words are the forms of 

 the article t6v, rdv, tmv ; the preposition Iv ; and the pronoun 

 ^1,1; [= fiev, i.e. fMe; see § 31, i). The instances are 



i) Tov : 



t6(v) ')(copov Coll. 60, 18; r6{v) ^pauofievov 60,9; to(i^) 

 '^pav^ofievov 60, 18; to(v) iroe'^o/jievov 60, 19, 21 ; to{v) Apv- 

 fiLcov 60, 19; To{v) KairovOo, 20; as relative in to (y) AipeiOe/bLt^ 

 60, 21 ; To{v) S6/jl€{v) 126, 2 is improbable; see § 31, 4 ; 



2) Tav : 



Ta{v) tttoXlv 60, I ; Ta(v) SoXtov 6o, 26; Ta{v) Stop 60, 27; 

 Ta{v) 8i(f)aTo{v) 69 ; Ta{v) peiKova ^6, 2 ; 



3) '^(^v: 



rw{v) TralBcov 60, II, 30; tco{v) Kaaiyv/jTcov 6o, 14; 



4) iV: 



l{v) Tvxac 17, 2; 27,2:28; 31,4; 37,3; 59,4; 72,2; 

 Ber/. Phil. Woch., 1886, No. 42, col. 1323 ; 1S87, No. 12, col. 

 380 ; l(y) TMi Coll. 60, 1,3, 8, 9 ; l{v) rdi 60, 8 ; l{v) MaXavt'jai 

 60, 17; l{v) SifJi{fx)t8o<; 60, 20; ot (V) Tco (with aphaeresis of 

 the i; see § 16, 3) 60, 31 ; 



5) f^^^- 



fil{v) KareOrjKe 1,2; 2, 2 ; probably also in (tv{v) rv^^a 

 120, 4. 



The above words always lose the v before a consonant, 

 without exception. The forms tov, rdv, etc., occur only before 

 vowels. 



The omission of v has also been claimed by Meyer {Gr. Gr?, 

 § 113, note) for y]v {i.e. edv). Meyer would read i]{v) k6 in 

 Coll. 60, 10, 23. But the existence of -qv has already been 

 shown to be improbable (see § 14, 6), and Deecke's reading 

 ^ {= el) is sufificiently justified by the occurrence of rj in 

 Cretan. 



3, Loss of final v before an initial consonant in other 

 cases than those above mentioned is to be accepted with 

 caution, ^6pFo{v) tov Coll. 60, 19 and aKfo{v) tov 60, 21 seem 

 certain. But other instances given by Deecke are doubtful, 



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