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Notes on the Greek Anthology
J. W. Mackail
The Classical Review / Volume 6 / Issue 05 / May 1892, pp 192 - 193 DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X00185579, Published online: 27 October 2009
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How to cite this article: J. W. Mackail (1892). Notes on the Greek Anthology. The Classical Review, 6, pp 192-193 doi:10.1017/S0009840X00185579
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Downloaded from http://journals.cambridge.org/CAR, IP address: 147.188.128.74 on 20 Mar 2015 192 THE CLASSICAL REVIEW. suffix. But the suffix -vri was directly point out that if I am right in supposing attached to a root with a vowel auslaut. On that the phenomenon of the liquid and nasal this principle we have tpd-vri, *Kipva-vn sonants involves rather the shifting of the (implied in Kipvcuri for *Kipva(n), *irifj.irpa-VTi sounds I, r, m, n to an easier plane than the (implied in 7Ttyi7rpao"i for *7ri]u.7rpao"i), *iriix/ir\a- mere weakening and curtailment of the VTI (implied in irifi/rrKafri for iri/xirXacri), &c. respective sounds, then we can have little That is to say, the termination -do-i is difficulty in admitting the possibility of long based upon forms accruing from vocalic roots sonants liquid and nasal; for all that 1 r in -a followed by the suffix -vrt. The form m fi mean is that there was a lengthened •avri, thus established, was extended to verbs insistence upon derivative sounds moving in whose root did not end in -a. Hence Ifitri, an easier plane. For the present however I iaxn, TiOecrau, &c, echo <£dcrt, &c. If this theorymust refrain from discussing this interesting be correct, it is quite unnecessary to trace point. On the whole, then, and with the in Idcri an accented nasal sonant; and an reservations and explanations advanced, I embargo is removed from the nasal sonant venture to express my conviction that which considerably embarrasses the handling Brugmann's theory of the nasal sonant of it. remains sound and intact. By way of concluding remark I may G. DUNN.
NOTES ON THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY.
OF the emendations in the text of the Aeovri altered to Aeovros at the end of a line, Anthology proposed by Mr. Tucker in the is not sufficient to bear him out here. Classical Review for March, two may be Anth. Pal. vii. 277, TIS |evos, u> vavr/yi; unhesitatingly accepted, namely the change Aedvrt^os ivddBe veKpov tvpev fcr.A.., there are of punctuation in Anth. Pal. vi. 30 which two objections to Mr. Tucker's TIS TIVOS, one makes clear sense of the MS. reading, and that it is hard to see how TIVOS could have the brilliant correction of 1. 3 in Anth. Pal. been corrupted into £eVos, the other that it vii. 712. Perhaps in the latter ra.8e ff ol KO. is very awkward to make TIS and Aedvri^os fj.vd\iaff bpuivTi (or raSe T OL jca nvd.jj.aT opGwri refer to different persons ; any one reading as it would be written in pure Aeolic) is a the line would suppose as a matter of course trifling improvement on Mr. Tucker's raSe that they were the same. 8' oi and also a little nearer the MS. TO, Se TOI. The other suggestions, I think, are less Anth. Pal. vii. 410 : certain. OeoTTis o8e, Tpayuajv os ave-rrXao-e •n-p&Tos doiSrjv Kinfi/rfrai'; veapa.'s Ka.ivoTOfJ.Siv ^apiTas Anth. Pal. v. 237, where the Palatine MS. T reads ofi/iara o" ov XdovTa
NOTES ON AESCHYLUS.
Aeschylus :— Ibid. 850. viravnd^LV e/t<3 muS! irapao-o/xai. Aesch. Pers. 814, 815. jrat'S' e/«3 is of course out of the question. Kol8eira> The flatness of Tretpocro/tai needs no pointing Kpiprls VTreamv, aXX' \T out. Since ai = e and 1 = 17 in later Greek pronunciation, ipA TrauSl is most like- ' The foundation is not yet laid (see pj ly to have arisen from i/jiirtSr) (adv.) ' I Trts and v7ro(i}dWfiv in Lex.) but is still being will try to meet my son with firmness. built up.' Ewmen. 219. Eead cKTrAINOCutTai for IKTTA\ A€veT