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A grammar of the Homeric dialect - Wilbourhall.org

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4 PERSON-ENDINGS. [5-<br />

Remarks on <strong>the</strong> Table <strong>of</strong> Person-Endings.<br />

1 Sing. On <strong>the</strong> Subj. in -w-fu see 82, and on <strong>the</strong> Optatives<br />

which take -ju in <strong>the</strong> I Sing, see 83.<br />

2 Sing. The original<br />

-o-i remains only in Icr-o-i thou art.<br />

The form ets (or enclitic ds) is read in nine places, but <strong>the</strong>re is only one<br />

(Od. 17. 388) in which <strong>the</strong> metre does not allow eW to be read instead.<br />

Probably, <strong>the</strong>refore, lo-crC is <strong>the</strong> genuine <strong>Homeric</strong> form. The Attic e? is not<br />

found in Homer.<br />

The Ending<br />

-o-0a occurs in <strong>the</strong> Pf. ota0a thou hiowest (oi8as in<br />

Od. I. 337, is a very doubtful reading), Plpf. fjbr](r0a (Od. 19.<br />

93), <strong>the</strong> Impf. and rfar0a erjo-fla thou wast, e

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