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BΩΣeΣΘe Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

R. Janko
Affiliation:
University of St. Andrews

Extract

The form (Ap. Rhod. 1.685) has lately caused controversy. It is traditionally interpreted as poetic for but O. Skutsch has denied that iota could be lost in this way, pointing out that instead it could be a correctly formed future cf. with a root ending in the laryngeal (my addition). M. Campbell rejects this, and rightly claims that ApoUonius borrowed the line from the Homeric Hymn to Pythian Apollo 528:

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1979

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page 216 note 1 Cf. Chantraine, P., Grammaire bomirique 2, i. p. 170 for similar cases in Homer.Google Scholar

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