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be for 09 with omitted final -s, according to § 20, i. ra, which 

 ,Deecke reads in 6Z, 4, is doubtful ; cf. p. 2. 



6. On o-t? for Tt9 Coll. 60, 10, 23, see § 22, 2. On oTTicrt? 

 (= ocTTi?), see § 21, 3 ; 22, 2. 



7. Deecke claims 0-1(9) in relative sense in Coll. 126, i, 

 comparing Thessalian /^i? /ce in rav ovuXav, kio-kg ^LvveiTei 

 (= ;^Ti9 civ jLjvTjTai) Coll. 345, 22. But the reading of the 

 Cyprian form is quite uncertain. Cf. ^ 20, 1 ad fin. 



8. A demonstrative tovvv seems to occur in the bilingual 

 in Bed. Phil. Wocli., 1886, No. 42, col. 1323. 



9. peavro), Meister's conjecture in his new reading of 

 Coll. 42 {Bei-l. Phil. Woch., 1887, No. 52, col. 1644), is ex- 

 ceedingly improbable. 



32. 

 Conjugation. 



1. In Coll. 60, i, Deecke writes Karefopicaiv from an as- 

 sumed present Kara-popKoo), 'besiege' (cf. -TroXiopKeo) for ttoXi- 

 fopKeo)). Hence KareFopKcov is the regular contracted 3d pi. 

 imperfect ind. for ^KarepopKoov. Ahrens, however {PJiilologus, 

 XXXV., p. 34), prefers to write KarifopKov. This he refers to 

 the same present, KarafopKow, but thinks that this verb has 

 followed in Cyprian the same tendency as the contract verbs 

 in Arcadian {cf Arcadian l^aiiLovra, imperative from ^afiLow 

 Coll. 1222, 17; ^afjii6vr€<i 1222, 50), and has passed over 

 into the -[it class. But the Arcadian does not follow this 

 tendency invariably, e.o^. ^a/jLLcoaOo) (contract), not ^a/xiS-aOo), 

 Coll. 1222, 28; so that Deecke's reading seems altogether 

 safer. 



2. 7^9 is given by Sayce (Berl. Phil. Woch., 1884, No. 21), 

 imperfect ind. 3d sing, from 7)111. He gives only this form, 

 apart from any context, and without reference to the certainty 

 of the text. If correct it furnishes an interesting parallel to 

 Arcadian ?]9 (for *e-eo--T, the primitive formation) Coll. 1222, 

 37. Cf. Boeotian irapetq {i.e. -?}9) Coll. 500, 8. 



3. iina-Tah, Deecke's reading in Coll. 6S, 3, would, if 

 correct, be for eTria-rair]^, aor. opt., with the mode-sign of the 



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