54 Charles E. Bennett, 



elusion drawn from this assumption, that there existed two 

 forms in the gen. plu., one in -« and one in -wv, is therefore 

 equally without foundation. In the absence of these dupli- 

 cate forms of the gen. plu. it is difficult to see how this could 

 have furnished the motive for the new formation. 



Others, as Leskien {Berichte dcr SdchsiscJien Gesellschaft 

 der Wissenschaften, 1884, p. 105) and Brugmann {GriecJiische 

 Gramniatik, § 94) suggest an independent ending here, -m or 

 -oin, which appears in Eccl. Slavonic. This is improbable. 

 It is not likely that the Cyprian -o- stems had two inherited 

 genitive formations in regular use. The one would have 

 almost inevitably supplanted the other in the ordinary lan- 

 guage. Latin familids beside stellae is a rarity ; dedbus and 

 filidbus have a special reason for existing ; whereas these 

 two genitives in -w and -wv exist side by side in the same 

 words in the same inscription. It is therefore more reason- 

 able to view the gen. sing, in -wv as a purely Cyprian develop- 

 ment, the result of certain influences or associations which 

 cannot as yet be determined. 



3. The dat. sing, ends sometimes in -wi, sometimes in -w. 

 On the relation of these two endings, see above, § 13, 3, c. 

 An examination of the examples given there, reveals the fact 

 that the ending -w is used only in those cases where it is 

 accompanied by another dative of the full form in -«i, or by 

 one ending in -ai or -i. This fact tends to discredit Deecke's 

 reading of "A(t)Sr;(6) iXKjadrwii) Coll. 126, 2 and roi(i) a(y)- 

 dpM7ra)(i) ibid. 3. Ahrens {Philologns, xxxv., p. 13 f.) con- 

 siders the forms in -wi as locatives wherever they are accom- 

 panied by a preposition, and writes them -oi. Cf. his view of 

 the corresponding ending -di in case of the -d- stems ; see 

 above, § 25, 5. 



4. On the ace. plu, in -os, see above, § 15. 



5. A locative sing, in -oi seems to occur in Tlaj)ol Coll. 56, 

 I and 'HSaXtoi 62, i ; possibly also in 'KfivKkol 59, 2. 



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