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viz. vao{v) r6{v)he Coll. 41, 2, which he no longer maintains 

 (see p. 3), and Ta{v) 8L(f)aTo{v) h[ixao{v) Ila(f)ija{v) ye CoLL. 69. 

 This latter instance might possibly seem worthy of accept- 

 ance did we thereby gain a reading which commended itself 

 in other respects, which is not the case. The individual 

 words of the passage are several of them strange, and the 

 sense which Deecke attaches to them {Besz. Beitr., vi., p. 146 f.) 

 is forced and unnatural. Equally improbable is Hall's a{v)- 

 6pa)7r(i)(v) Oeoji {Jonr. Am. Or. Soc, xi., p. 220), which he reads 

 in place of Deecke's a{v)6p(07r6 OeSa Coll. 62>, 3. 



4. In Coll. 126, 2, Deecke would even maintain the disap- 

 pearance of final V before a vowel in h6fjie{v) "Ah]. This is 

 also assumed by Hall {Jour. Am. Or. Soc, xi., p. 216) in his 

 reading iJbi{v) ev^dfievo<; in place of Deecke's ueufa/tevo? (i.e. 

 eTrev^dfievo'i ; see § 17, 2) Coll. 45; further in Kvv€/xco{v) 

 ocrela {Jour. Am. Or. Soc, xi., p. 226) Coll. 87 ; 'AvTi<^dfiw{v) 

 6 {ibid., p. 225) Coll. 83. But in none of these cases does 

 any probability attach to the reading. 



24. 



Other Peculiarities. 



1. Triple consonance occurs in e^^acriv Co'LL. 32. So also 

 the preposition e^ is used invariably before initial consonants, 

 i^ TO)L 60, 5, I r, 24 ; i^ rcu 60, 6, 24. 



2. Doubled consonants are regularly written singly, viz. in 

 avdcr{<T)a<; CoLL. 33, I ; favda{(T)a<; 38, 4; 39, 2 ; 40 ; 'AyLi(yLt)i)9 

 61; "Av{v)a^ 147; 'A'7r6X{\)(ovL 31, 3; 32, 2 ; 59, 3 ; 72, 

 2; 74, 2; 75, 3; 77; 78; 120, 2; ra(X)t'/ca(9) 120, i; 

 rtX,(X)iVa/ro9 29; nao-i7r(7r)o9 194; — <'/i(/u.)tSo9 (.-*) 60, 20 ; 

 fxa^jb{lx)o'TrdTwp {?) 85 ; favda{(j)a<i Bezz. Beitr., xi., p. 315 ; 

 p. 316; Vik{\)iKaptBerl. Phil. Woch., 1886, No. 41, ii. ; doubt- 

 ful is dX{\y Coll. 6'^, 3 ; Mava(j{a)rj<i Berl. Phil. Woch., 

 1886, No. 42, col. 1323. 



Instead of ^ A'7r6X(\)wvL the principles of the Cyprian syl- 

 labary would admit 'AifkoiVi {cf. Thessalian "AirXovvi, i.e. 

 "AttXwvc Coll. 368 ; 372 ; "AttXol'i'o? 345, 22). On the other 



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