occurs in two classical contexts. They are: (i) Alc. 320 L.-P. (23 Diehl) 
(ii) Democr. 156 Diels (in Plut. 
. Further, Diels adds two other passages showing Democritus' use of the word. Simpl. 
from 
, the latter supposedly an emphatic particle built upon a new form 
and on the analogy of 
. There is no justification at all for this view, which also leaves out of account the pronominal use of 
in Alcaeus and Democritus.
, which only appears in Et. Mag. as part of its explanation of the form 
.
in reference to cases of compounds in which ‘das Hinterglied für das Sprachgefühl vollig undeutlich wurde’. But it it is quite clear that these words could not be applied to 
.
.
, which was corruptly inserted after 
. A later reference in Et. Mag. (639. 17, s.v. 
) is a source of the fragment Alc. 320 L.-P., but does not go into the question of meaning.
appears both a simple and a desirable emendation of 
replacing 
: so 
. The article in Et. Mag., after saying that 
is made up of 
and 
, then goes into a long discussion of the accent of 
, so that this form is foremost in the mind. It would therefore not be out of the question to continue by referring to it: ‘of this word 
we have the neuter form 
without the added 
in Alcaeus’. Contrasted with this, 
returns to the earlier mention of the word: 
will then draw attention to the rarity of the form 
, as compared with the frequency of the compound 
. It will be seen that the problem of the reading does not vitally affect the general sense of the passage.
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