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378*.] SYNIZESIS CONTRACTION. 351<br />

metre we cannot but suspect that <strong>the</strong> spelling with Crasis may<br />

be due to later usage. The forms jcd/cei^o?, KaKeure, &c. (for<br />

KOI Ktlvos, &c.) are certainly wrong, as CKZIVOS is not <strong>the</strong> <strong>Homeric</strong><br />

form.<br />

378.] Synizesis is <strong>the</strong> term used when <strong>the</strong> two coalescing<br />

vowels are written in full, but ' 3<br />

sink toge<strong>the</strong>r (vvviavu>}<br />

into<br />

one syllable<br />

in pronunciation.<br />

The Particle<br />

r\<br />

unites with <strong>the</strong> initial vowel <strong>of</strong> a following<br />

vowel, especially with av, CLVTOS and OVTMS ( 350) ;<br />

also with<br />

'Amjudxoio (II.<br />

II. 138), d^eioYaros (II. 2O. 23OJ, dyprjv (Od.<br />

12. 330). ^<br />

Synizesis is also found with if, in <strong>the</strong> combination 77 oi>x (II. 5-<br />

439, &c.), ri tls 6 Kev (II. 5. 466), ri efafyevat, (Od. 4. 682) ; with<br />

eirei ou (Od. 4. 352, &c.) ;<br />

with JAY)<br />

aXXoi (Od. 4. 165); and in<br />

II. 17. 89 do-/3e'oT(i)- ovb' vlbv \a0ev 'Arpeoj: where we may<br />

perhaps read da-/3eW'<br />

ovb' via Xa0' 'Arpeoj.<br />

18. 458 wet /x(5 &KV[jL6p

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