Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (4.1885-1886)

j8 on greek versification in inscriptions.

very uncertain. — Meister makes [Ato]«Aeat, if I understand him,

in the third verse of cxxn, but the verse has been better reconstructed
by others. The first verse of the same epitaph measures AtoKAeat
(w w re).—'lir(Tr)oar[Tpa\Tov (rrj/xa, 8, I am inclined to read other-

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wise : see Appendix, p. 162.

6. The residue is now small:

/j.€fivafjLcvoL, lxxvi (Cypriote).

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iv TpiaKovT ereo-iv, 85 (Att. iv-ii) ;
120

similarly Anth. Pal. ix, 682, rpiaKovra Svo in the latter half of a penta-
meter.

rj/j-vvav Kat jxoi, 96 (Att. iv—ii).

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a-ajxa tov KvwpCov, 188 (Aegina v).
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a-[rj]/xa jxrjT-qp, 229 a RM (Erythrae vi) :
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where Kaibel thinks p-^ttjp has replaced an original Trarrip, but Rohl
transposes p.yyr-qp to the next line : see p. 46.

Trrj/jidva^ 'irnxOavimv, 26 (Att. iv) ;

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in which a tag belonging to the feminine caesura is made to follow
the masculine.

Hup(p)iaSd 'os ovk, cxliv (Thess. vi-v).

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£7ro£6 "b toi, cxxvi (Metapont. vi) :
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for which Hiller proposes o (Se) toi.

Doubtful is ['Epx]o-[e/Ae']/xe[i Tra]Trjp restored by Kohler in xxix

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(Att. v). Still less probable is /cA.[e]os, XLVm; see Appendix,
p. 181. Rohl makes the last two lines of 745 into a hexameter
beginning ko.1 rot SvpaKoVtot; but this seems improbable to me.

EMI = 'I am,' has its first syllable short in cxliv (Thess. vi-v),
but this, as Kirchhoff remarks, may well be dialectic.

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