INDEX IIIA COMPOSITION, LANGUAGE AND STYLE, METRE AND PROSODY Accentuation 12 (~E), 57 (M), 71 (XEtµa.p• 38, 97, 169, 198, 256, 268-70, 278f., pouc;), 81 (a'i6E), 145 al. (aor. aico), 243 278, 279, 283, 297-8, 302, 381, ?383, (Ei'.6uta), 384 (q,acri}m), 418 (iiµ11toc;) 45 1 Accusative of relation 80; of fixed point in time 417; double accus. with verbs Cacophonous language 374, 446 of depriving 175; with aµ1tvdro 230, Caesura, shift of scene at bucolic diaere­ llltO'tpOlltllOµm 16, e~Elµl sim. 159, ~EOl sis 6; proclitic Kai before main cae­ 273, µdpoµm 4, 1tEtparo 10, 1tpopero sura I 15; versus tetracolos 220 225, tE-1hi1ta 215, 11)\lO'UlOl 410; w. ava Chariot, poetic 1 unusually 44, 0lEK 73, µEta (of place) Chiasmus 10-11, 412 13 Clausula involving monosyllable 115, pa­ Adverb cohering closely with subst. 62; tronymic 194; spondeia,zontes 133-4, in 'personal' construction with dvm 197-8, 231, 252, 293, 456; end-stopped 103; in -roe; 319; -i}l for ·O'E 255, 373 lines 37, runover in Ap. 20-1, 26-8, Allegorical interpretation of Homeric 28-9, 100-1 text 135-41, 211 Clinical description 297-8, 422f. Alliteration, assonance, rhyme, word­ Comparative, contrasting 209; 'younger play 1, 46-7, 51f., 71, 124, 192, 260-7, than' effectively = 'the youngest' 275, 279, 346, 410, 414, 418, 467 member 'of' a group 319 Ambiguity 19-20, 33, 95, 96, 107, 135, Compendious expressions 207f. 306, 307, 313, 325, 337, 35o Conditional clauses (cf. s. subjunctive) Anachronisms, certain and probable in 'if,' 'to see if,' 'if in truth' not imply­ description of Aeetes' palace 215f., ing real doubt about outcome or the 22of., 222-3, 223-7, 225-7, 235, 238, cf. facts 26-8, 113, 358; Ei + aKOUEl<; idio­ ad 270-4 (size of palace); note also matically 362-3; Ei + pres. indic. 80; i35-41B Et KE irregularly with aor. indic. 377 / Anacoluthon, unpromising 248-9, 375-6 379; id. + optat. 'to see if .. might .. .' Anaphora 23of.; paraenetic 173-4 sim. 180; Ei µ11 + fut. indic. 75, 99 Aoidos, Homeric 1, 4-5 Contraction 193, 349 Aporia, poetic/hymnic 1-5, 6; in Homer Correption before m.. - 255-6, before Kp- 66-74, 353; on a specific point of gen­ 357; unacceptable double correption ealogy 136 44 Article, pronominal, interposed ele­ Crasis 102, 176 ments 70; + subst. 428, + partic. 406 Assonance see alliteration Dactylic bias 21; dactylic run arrested 2- Asyndeton 409, 417, 464-70; hair-raising 3, IO, 146f. specimen in MSS 208 Dative, concomitant/temporal 163, 225, Augment after word ending in a vowel 225-6, type autoicrw t6~otcn 96, 373; 48; analogical temporal augment 454 instrumental, (clothed) 'with/in' 454, (play) 'with/ at' 117b; of interest 370; Brevity (cf. s. compendious expressions, locative, '(to a point) inside' (assoc. ellipse, epithets, narrator) compressed, with Kata-) 154-5; of purpose 413-5, economical style passim, e.g. 10, 36, 413; of respect, 'as far as ... goes' 386 INDEX IIIA (doubtful ex.); 'double dative' 346, Exclamatory o{a (6t) 381 (?); infin. 375- 461-2, cf. ad 413-5, alleged ex. 386; 6 (?) with E\lllWLV 307; with ava 44, ??166; allegedly with aVtT]V 100-1 'Formulae,' presumed Argonautic 2, 13, Diction, 3rd cent. hexam. (3H see 58, (88), 169, 194, 240, 357, 390; Abbreviations and Bibliography C), formulaic veneer 230, 231, 232, 410, passim, as e.g. nouns 5, 144, 166, 175, 411, 412; 'neoformulaic' elements in 184, 233-4, 241, 266, 291, 313, 329, Arg. e.g. 24, 178 & 196, 299, 301, 42$ 337-8, 353, 360, 392, 397, 450; pro­ 'formulaic doublets' 174. Cf. s. repeti­ nouns 48, 331; adjectives 52, 93, 162, tion 184, 222 bis, 229, 275, 280, 281, 294, 3oo, 316, 334, 390, 401, 403, 436, 457- Gemination 37, 74, 109-10, 111, 149, 150, 8; adverbs 62, 97, 280, 281, 293, 334, 181, 300, 301, 396, 456 383; prepositions 22, 217-8, 266, 356; Genitive ambiguous 3$ of object conjunction 67; particle 354-5; verbs grasped 146-7, source 136, 225-7; gen. 9, 14-5, 80, 99, 134, 193, 208, 224, participle after oi 371; with aytpamoc; 293, 370, 380, 385, 409, 426, 446-7, 65, i}EAK'tT\ptoc; 33, ai}Epl~Cll 80, Eltl­ 460-1; speech-capping formulae 17, lCUPCll 342, 1tEii}oµm 307-8, ava. 198; 22, 30, 83, I II, 259, 432-3 allegedly with em<JXEpoo 170; function Didacti.ca, influence exerted by, see esp. misunderstood by schol. 114 135-41, 159-63, 160-1 Digamma neglected 201, 224 Hiatus, genuine and mistaken cases of, Dissymmetry in coordinated clauses 381 26, 154, 170, 201, 207f., 262, 263, 323, Dual participle = plural 206; dual intro- 327, 354-5 duced by conjecture 360 (subst.), 410 Humour 7-166, 11, 14-5, 21, 25, 27, 32, (partic.) 34, 45-7/50, 46-7, 56, 81-2, 82, 91f., 91-2, 106, 108f., 130, 154-5, 176f., 225- Ecphrasis in mm1ature 135-41; manner- 7 isms of 137, 139-40 Elegy, amatory 2 Illogicality 103, 377 / 379 Elision, unHomeric type 5 Imperative pres./aor. 1, 85 Ellipse of subject in gen. absol. 215; of Indicative, pres. with Ei 80; pres. indic. object of verb 349 with KEV to be rejected 401; cf. s. con­ Epithets, prepositive 5, 13, 45, 148-9, ditional clauses, optative, tenses 190, 229, 417, 2 x EN in series 158, Infinitive, fut. + av 28-9; fut. with µ£- 337; postpositive (cf. s. word order) 4- µova 351; ? exclamatory 375-6 5, 5, 15, 37, 70, 135, 139-4o, 162, 217- Intensification 148, 192, 336-9 & 337-8, 8, 263, 325, 414, 457-8; avoidance of 376, 427 epithet + name in run-up to direct Irony of various kinds 51f., 52, 62, 89, speech 10, and of epithets/ accumula­ 134, 135-41, 152, 168f., 171, 176, 191, tion of epithets 36, 46-7, 47-50, 196f., 192, 243, 266, 288-9, 290, 306, 309- 388-9; resolution of Homeric com­ 13, 326-7, 328, 336, 382-5, 405-6, 419, pound form 393 429,437 Erotic imagery/ symbolism, see notably 163, 276, 280, 281, 286b-7, 287, 287- Koine see popular speech 8, 288-9, 290, 291f., 294-5, 296, 446, 446-7 Lament, atmosphere of formal lament­ Etymologising 1, 4-5, 6, 73, 115, 162, 211, scene evoked 253-6, 259 216, 285, 292, 345-6, 444-5; in Call. Lengthening, metrical before lambda 93, in Catull. 34of., in HyAphr 96, in 300, 444-5, before mu 36, 457-8; Ovid 1-5 'Wemicke's. Law' 185 .