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When the Stem ends in a vowel, certain forms of the Pf. Act.
1
take K, thus filling the hiatus which would otherwise be made
between the Stem and the :
Ending as in ZO-TYJ-K-CLS, 8ei'8oi-K-a,
TeOapa-ij-K-da-L. The Perfects of this type including those of
which no forms with K are actually found may be divided again
into
(a) Perfects with variable root-vowel : eorr/Ka I stand, i Plur.
t(TTa-fjiv ;
8et8otKa I fear, I Plur. 8ei8t-^ei> ; Tre^uKe, 3 Plur. Ttetyvd(Ti:
fiefirjKa, Inf. /3e/3a-/xez; ; T0vr]Ka} Imper. rtOva-Qi
Imper. rerXa-Qi. Add also jue/ow-Ke is closed (of a wound),
is sunk in, though the short form is not found.
(b) Perfects with invariable long vowel, especially t]
and w
(discussed in 14) : /Se/SA^-K-et struck, Mid. j3e'j3A.rj-rai (cp. fvjut-
(3Xrj-Tr]v, /SArj-jueroj) ; KCKfjirj-K-as art weary, 7^7T\r]-fjLvos brought
near, KK\r]-fjLaL, eiprj-rcu, fjLfjivr]-fjLaL, rerjur^-jaeVoj ; /3e/3pco-K-a)j
having eaten (Fut. Mid. /3/3p&>-o-ercu), ju4t/3Aa>-/c-e is gone, TreTrpwpiws
fated.
Similarly, from disyllabic Stems, 8e8ar/-K (Aor. -bdr]-v) has
learned (Od. 8. 134), rer^x^-Ke (Od. 10. 88), and the Participles
To this class belong the Perfects of derivative Verbs in -aw,
-ew, -ow, -uw, as ^J3ir]-K-V (II. IO. 145, 172., 16. 22), V7i-epvr]^v-
K
(II. 22. 49lX b$L7TVYI-Kl (Od. 1 7. 359), T0ap(Tri-K-d(TL (II. 9.
420, 687) : KKOT7]-ora, KKOpr]-oTa, aK-d^rj-fjLai, aX-aXri-^ai, oXa-
\VKTf] -)U,at.
(II. 10. 252, with v. 1. irapa;x cw CI ') ig formed as if from *Trap-oixe&,
.
dS-rj-K-oTes (Od. 12. 281, and four times in II. 10) means displeased, disgusted,
and should probably be written daSrjKoTes, from daSe'cu (for d-o/a5-ecw).
The Subj. {XTJKTJO-I (Od. 21. 36), Opt. Ixjicoi (H. Apoll. 165) point to a Pf.
Pres. I\T]-KQ}.
A Perfect in -0a
may be recognised in eypriyop-Oaa-L keep
(TO)
awake 10. (II. 419) perhaps in the Opt. : /3e/3/ow0ois (II. 4. 35).
In general the Perfects of derivative Verbs are formed with an
It is a confirmation of this view that the Stem with -KO, is in the same form
as the Present Stems with a suffixed K, 7, 9 ( 45), or