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A grammar of the Homeric dialect - Wilbourhall.org

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CONTRACTION SYNIZESIS. 55<br />

2. Verbs in -eo><br />

rarely contract -eo or -ew, except in <strong>the</strong><br />

Participle (-ivjuero? for -eojue^oj). This rule is confirmed from<br />

New Ionic inscriptions (Erman, Curt. Stud. v.<br />

292), as well<br />

as <strong>the</strong> MSS. <strong>of</strong> Herodotus. For eu in TTOL^V^V (II. 9. 495),<br />

O^tvvro (II. 7. 444), o^XevvTai (II. 21. 261), eyeyoWw (Od. 9. 47,<br />

&c.) and a few similar forms we should write -eo (see 57).<br />

The contraction <strong>of</strong> -ce, -ei is established by <strong>the</strong> large number<br />

<strong>of</strong> instances * in which it is required by <strong>the</strong> metre. Moreover<br />

it is not merely a license, necessary for <strong>the</strong> sake <strong>of</strong> admitting<br />

certain forms into <strong>the</strong> hexameter (such as rap/3 eij, z>etKetz>,<br />

reAeiTai, T/yeta-flcu, o-^apayei, e(/uAei, olvo\6fi). Among <strong>the</strong><br />

instances <strong>of</strong> contraction in <strong>the</strong> last foot we find 29 <strong>of</strong> -ei for -ee<br />

(as -^oXos 6c piv aypio? and 16 i?/>t), <strong>of</strong> -ei for -eei (as naC jute<br />

y\VKvs Ifjitpos cupei); also <strong>the</strong> forms

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