50 Charles E. Befinett, 



hand Cyprian e'ini' might possibly be taken for efi{ix)t, 

 except for the evidence of KAPVI EMI the Greek text of 

 the bilinguis Coll. 65 {cf. § 16). 



This practice of writing doubled consonants singly is not 

 peculiar to the Cyprian, but is found more or less frequently 

 in most archaic inscriptions of every dialect. Cf. Syracusan 

 'Kirekwvt Roehl, Inscriptiones Graecae Antigtnssimae, 509 ; 

 Megarian 'AvroXwi^i ibid., 1 1 ; Pamphylian 'KireXwya Coll. 

 1267, 30; TLfMcifeaa 1 267, 6 and the list given in Meyer, 

 Gr. Gr.^ § 287. 



3. N-movable is found in a few late inscriptions, viz. 

 e8(0K€v "Kylrda-wiJLO^ Berl. Phil. Woch., 1887, No. 12, col. 380; 

 eScoKev Kci^ and ovidrjKev Mavaa(cr)i]<; Berl. Phil. Woch., 1 886, 

 No. 42, col. 1323; in the two latter cases before an initial 

 consonant. 



4. The Cyprian syllabary has no character for the rough- 

 breathing, which is generally supplied in accordance with the 

 vulgar usage. 



5. Initial ttt for -n- appears in tttoA,;? Coll. 60, 2, 4, 7, 15, 

 16, 27 ; TTToXtji 60, 6 ; irroXiv 60, i, all doubtless to be referred 

 to Homeric influence ; see § 20, i. 



6. Primitive pa- is retained in e/cepcre Coll. 32, 2, in accord- 

 ance with the regular law. Cf. on the other hand Arcadian 

 (^Oe'pac (i.e. cf)0/]pai?) Coll. 1222, 8. 



7. Hall's Xlja {Jo7ir. Am. Or. Soc, xi., p. 225) for %ijd, i.e. 

 Bed, his reading in Coll. 85, cannot be admitted. The change 

 of e to o- found in late Laconian (see Mullensiefen, De Titiilo- 

 riim Laconicoriun Dialecto, p. 56) is not probable for Cyprian ; 

 and goddess in this dialect is expressed regularly by ^eo? (fem. 

 as well as masc), e.g. Coll. 60, 27. 



8. Kv\xepr]vai, CoLL. 68, 4, if correctly taken as a collateral 

 form of ^Kv^epvrjvaL, represents the same change of p to ^ as 

 that seen in Kvixepvi^TT]<i for Kv/3€pv)]Ti]<i, Etymologicum Mag- 

 num, 543, 2, where it is referred to the AtoXet?. Further 

 concerning the form, see § 32, 12. 



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