A grammar of the Homeric dialect - Wilbourhall.org

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and so 6Vo-ot 9 A\aioi t ot Trep apto-rot, 77
rts apt'orr?, os r' atrtos 09 re
Kal ov/a, &c. Hence we should write in II. n. 535., 20. 500
avrvycs at Trept bitypov, in II. 21. 353 tx^es ^ Ka ivas. So
with the Adverbs ;
as Od. TO. 176 op' er 1^7 1 0or) (Bp&cris re TioVts
re 50
long as there is food and drink in the ship.
'
i . This ellipse leads to a peculiar Attraction '
into the Case of
the Antecedent, found chiefly with ooros re, as
Od. JO. 113 rr]v 8e yvvciiKa \ tvpov ocrrjv r opeos Kopvcfrriv,
which is equivalent to roa-rjv oVrj eo-rt Kopvtyri ; and so ovov re,
Od. 9. 322, 325., JO. 167, 517., I J. 25 ;
also oUv re, Od. 19. 233.
The only instance in the Iliad is somewhat different :
II. I. 262 ov yap TTOJ TOLOVS t6oz> . . olov RtipiOoov KT\.
The later Attraction of the Relative into the Case of the
Antecedent is not found in Homer. Kiihner gives as an example
II. 5. 265 rrjs yap rot ye^erjs fjs Tpau Trep e^puoVa Zei/j O>K. But
there the Gen. is '
partitive the brood from which Zeus gave '
:
( 151 e).
So II. 23. 649 ( 153).
2. Another effect of this omission may be found in the use of
double Relatival forms, especially ws ore as when (it is) ; which
again may be used without any Verb following :
e.g.
II. 13. 471 aAA' ejuez/ a>s ore rts (TVS ovp of the kind to defend (Od. 2. 60),
IJitvcLv ert r?]AtKos of the agefor remaining (Od. 17. 20);
(2) the Correlative form, such as II. 5. 483 rotoy olov K ?]e
(j)poiv 'Axaiot r\
KZV ayoitv: II. 7. 231 ^juets 5' d^lv rotot ot av
Thus (e.g.]
Od. 21. 172 rotor otoV re . . pvrrjpa /3to
/cat oto-rw^ combines the forms rotoz; ejute^at of the kind to be and
rotor ows re (eo-rt) of the kind that In other
(is).
words, the con-