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In the evu{a and the Erotocritos 'l'O and 'l'à are still quite common,
but 'l'OV and 'l'~V appear to have been pushed back by ónov: in the evu{a
'l'~V occurs 6 times, 'l'OV never, in the Erotocritos 'l'~V occurs 6 times, and
'l'OV 8 times 222. An even more important thing is that it appears to have
been used Ie ss and less in relat. clauses preceded by an antecedent. In
the evu{a there are 21 instances of this use, but in the much longer
Erotocritos this number has been reduced to a mere 10 223.
In the language of to-day it has been altogether replaced by nov. lts
use is restricted to some Southern dialects 224.
4. '0 noioç
Mter the discussion on ónov and 'l'OV 'l'~V 'l'O attention should be paid
to the third relat. pronoun which is in use during the early Modern Greek
period. This is ó noioç or ó notóç, also used in the forms ó önotOç, ó óno'ioç,
ó ónotóç, óno'ioç and ónotóç. Only a few words will be said about its origin,
the main purpose of this chapter being to find out how it was used.
4.1. Origin
The scholars agree on the date of origin: in the course of the 13th
century, af ter the crusades. Hatzidakis considers it as being brought
about mainly by the influence of the Western relat. pronouns il quaie
and Ie quel 225 • If it was meant as a substitute for ónov, arelat. pronoun
which was not even a pronoun and of ten needed the support of a pronomen
coniunctum, it has not been very successful. lts frequency in the texts
is very low, ex cept in the Ohron. Mor., the Assizes and the Ohronicle of
Machairas 226. And even in these texts ónov has not been pushed back by it:
it is not possible to establish that the use of ónov decreased in any of them.
4.2. Use
4.2.1. Velthandros
In this romance of chivalry only two cases of ó no'ioç occur, both in
the object-case and used in a nonessential clause:
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uai 1; ÓJdta yveov neetuuá, À,dJaew'l'à uàueiva,
'l'à ónoia f-te'l'à f-t'YJXavijç èfJáu'l'a uá-rw ue{v'YJ.
222 Nine of the instances of the Erotoeritos occur in the set phrase TOV (TT/V) dyaná
or something similar .
223 For an enumeration of these examples see Bakker, Some Remarks, n. 4,
224 See .Jannaris, § 1438, Thumb, Hell., p. 87, Id., Handbuch, § 149, note 1,
Triandafyllidis, p. 298, note 1, Schwyzer-Debrunner, p. 643 and Browning, pp. 66-7.
225 Hatzidakis, MNE 1I, pp. 593-7. Different opinions have been voiced by
Simon Portius (see note 200), p. 171 and Mavrofrydis, pp. 611-2.
226 This phenomenon is explained by the fact that the authors of these three
texts lived in a country which was ruled by western princes.