A grammar of the Homeric dialect - Wilbourhall.org

30 THE PERFECT.
[27.
the Homeric refl^-coj)
is not earlier than Theognis. Similarly
yeyor-co? for yeyacos first appears in H. Merc. 17.
5. The form ne^vC-ores flying (only in II. 20 and 21), seems
to be formed from the noun $i;a, without the intervention of
any Tense- Stem. This account will apply also to
KCKOTT-CUS (II. 13. 60), from KOTT-OS striking.
8e8oim-oT09 (II. 23. 679) having fallen with a thud. (The
regular form would be 8e8ov:r?7-co?, or rather perhaps ey 5 ovirr] -co?,
cp. -ybovTrr]-(rav.)
dpY)-jAeVos, in which the a of ap-rj
is retained, against analogy.
It is in favour of this view that many Denominative Verbs
form the Pf. Part, without the corresponding Indicative, as
KeKOTY)-ws and the others given above ( 22, 9).
That is to say,
the Participle is treated as a derivative Adjective, which may
be formed independently of the corresponding verb.
27.] Thematic Perfects. By this term we understand the
forms which arise when a Perfect is inflected like a Present in -w.
This change took place universally in Syracusan Doric, occasionally
in other dialects. The chief Homeric instances are
as follows :
aywya : 3 Sing, aucoyet,
which has a Present sense in several
places (though more commonly it is a Plpf Dual
.), av&ye-rov ;
also yvtoyov, avo&yov, circoye, Opt. aucoyoijut, Imper. d^coye-rco,
dvcoye-re. Such a form as ijvtoyov may be regarded either as
a thematic Plpf. of az;o>ya, or as .
Impf of a new thematic Pres.
dycoyco. This remark applies also to the next three cases.
yeyum : eyeyowe, Inf. ycyaW-jtxei; (also yeyuviv or yeyoweiz;,
II. 12.337).
(only in the Part.) ^TrXrjyov and : TienXrjyov, Inf.
,
Mid. TreTrArjye-ro. Similarly
ws (Part.)
:
ejue'/xr/Kou.
(us : Plur. KK\riyovTs (II. 12. 125., 1 6. 430., 17. 756,
759)5 perhaps TCTpiyoi/Tcs ( 26, i),
and iceKo-iro^ 1. (v.
for
'
/ce/co7rcoy,
II. 13. 60., Od. 1 8. 335).
(xc/jL^jjiai the Opt. : jue/owe'toro (II. 23. 361) is apparently obtained
by transference of quantity from a thematic
but we may read //e'juz^ro, 3 Sing, of the regular Opt.
(II. 24. 745)'
F r this, again, some MSS. have juejuiWju,?^, as
if from */xe/uz>o-^cu.
The 2 Sing. Ind. ^/jivy (II. 15* i&) also
points to jutjuro/i/,at, but we may read /ae/ui^' (i. e. /ute/jtz^ai).
fj^jjipXc-Tai (II. 19. 343) and (xe^pXe-To (jmeA-co) may be variously
explained. Perhaps juejueA-, the short Stem answering to
became by metathesis /xe/xAe-, /jie/x/3Ae- :
cp. ijfjippoTov for
opwpe-rai (Od. 19. 377, 524, Subj. 6pu>pr)-raL II. 13. 2/l).
&I!]&-TCU (v. 1. in Od. 22. 56, see 25, 3).
We may add the