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A grammar of the Homeric dialect - Wilbourhall.org

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70 MOODS.<br />

[82.<br />

Traces <strong>of</strong> this type <strong>of</strong> Subj. are found in <strong>the</strong> Greek <strong>dialect</strong>s :<br />

bvvd-fJiaL (for 8wo>/icu), naO-tord-Tai, 7rpo-Ti6r]VTi, &c. (Meyer, G. G.<br />

p. 502). In Homer it<br />

may be recognised in <strong>the</strong> 3 Sing, forms<br />

Qyviv (Od. I. 1 68), (f)6fi(n (II. 23. 805), fja-L (II. 15. 359), |ue0-ir/(ri<br />

(II. 13. 234), 8o>o-t ; perhaps in 6?, b&fjiev, SGxri, '7repi-8a>ju,e0oi>,<br />

e7u-8a>jute0a ; yuws, yv&jJLtv, yv&vi ; irL-(3fJTov, TrcLprjOfjrov, &c.<br />

which are usually regarded as contracted from <strong>the</strong> regular<br />

<strong>Homeric</strong> 8o>o>, 8co?7?, Scooter, &c. and in fc/pq-rai, eTU-or^rai<br />

( 87, 3)-<br />

How <strong>the</strong>n did <strong>the</strong> <strong>Homeric</strong> forms <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> type <strong>of</strong>

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