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Hiatus in Homeric Verse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

A. Shewan
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There is a division of opinion on this subject which is perplexing to the ordinary student of Homer. The extremists on one side hold that hiatus was all but absolutely barred, while the more thoroughgoing among their opponents believe it was freely tolerated. A notable paper by the eminent philologist, Karl Brugmann, Zur Geschichte der hiatischen (zweisilbigen) Vokalverbindungen in den indogermanischen Sprachen, in Berichte üb. d. Verhandlgn. d. königl. sachs. Gesells. d. Wissensch. zu Leipzig, philol.-histor. Klasse, 1913, 139 sqq., might well, it seems, be taken as a starting-point for further investigation.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , January 1923, pp. 13 - 20
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1923

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page 13 note 1 I use the terms ‘arsis’ and ‘thesis’ in the popular, but, as it seems, the incorrect, fashion. See Hardie, , Res Metrica, 262Google Scholar . I also use, in what follows, an upright line to denote the opening or ending of a verse, and two to mark the caesura in the third foot. 1D, 2T, etc. = first dactyl, second trochee, etc.

page 19 note 1 If it was not entirely silent, it is not easy account for the aspiration of the final consonant in cases like πάνθ' λός.