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Homeric Words in Arcadian Inscriptions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

C. M. Bowra
C. M. Bowra
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Wadham College, Oxford
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It has been known for many years that inscriptions in the Arcadian dialect contain a considerable number of words which occur commonly in the Homeric poems and rarely, if at all, elsewhere. The first attempt at a complete list was made by Otto Hoffmann in Die grieckischen Dialekte, I. pp. 276–278. He gives as Homeric αἶσα (‘share’), βóλομαι νυ ⋯πυέσΘω, ⋯ρτύω ⋯σκηΘές, δεάτοι, δ⋯μα, 'EἙκατόνβοια and 'Eκατόμβοια, hίκοντα, κελεύθω, μέστ', πληθύς, and πλός. Buck, in Greek Dialects, p. 132, added εùΧωλά and ἆμαρ and we might with as much justification add ἒρπειν λεύσοντες and λεύσοντες. In each case a Homeric word, unusual in later Greek except in verse, is used in ordinary Arcadian epigraphic prose.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 20 , Issue 3-4 , July 1926, pp. 168 - 176
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1926

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page 169 note 1 Compare other datives in I.G. V. 2: Πολυκρέτι. 6. 78; Mεγακλȋ 6. 73; ίερȋ 6. 59, 61, 72, 100; Tιμοσθένι 415. 5.

page 170 note 1 Σ 379.

page 170 note 2 P. 447, p. 158, μ 395.

page 172 note 1 Wackernagel, in Glotta VII. (p. 221)Google Scholar thinks δοάσσατο in Homer is corrupt for δεάσσατο, but his view is very uncertain.

page 172 note 2 A Mantinean Inscription (I.G. V. 2. 262, 23) probably reads δέατοι, not έ⋯τοι, which F. Hiller von Gärtringen gives.

page 172 note 3 Cf., too, the archaic forms in Cretan (Hesychius, άβέλιον ἢλιον, Κρ⋯τες) and in Pamphylian (Eustathius 1654. 19, quoting Heraclides, τò γοȗν ϕάος ϕάβος λέγουσι καìτòάέλιοςΒαβέλιος, and Hesychius, άβελίην ήλιακόνΙΙαμϕύλιοι).

page 172 note 4 405D.

page 173 note 1 1Hdt. V. 113; Paus. VIII. 5. 2; Strabo XIV. 682; Lycophron 586 sqq.; Hesychius 'AΧαιομάντεις Steph. Byz. Γολγοί and Λακεδαίμων.

page 173 note 2 Cf. also Bekker, , Anec. Grace, p. 1095Google Scholar, Αργείωναἷσαμοȋρα, and Hegesandrus ap. Ath. VIII. 368, τ⋯ν συμβολ⋯ν τ⋯ν είς τ⋯ συμπόσια ύπό τ⋯ν πινόντων είσϕερομένην Ἀργεȋοι Χ⋯ν καλέουσι,τ⋯ν δ⋯ μερίδα αἷσαν.

page 174 notet 1 Cf. Meister, , Sitzungsber. berl. Akad., 1910, p. 151Google Scholar.

page 175 note 1 For the survival of -εψιος elsewhere cf. Dem. 24. 134, ΦιλέΨιος Λαμπτρεύς. I owe this and some other references to Mr. R. McKenzie.

page 175 note 2 It is worth noticing the language of Diodorus (XV. 67. 2) describing the same events. Ἀρκάδες δ⋯ Λυκομήδην στρατηγòνπροΧειρισάμενοι καì παραδόντες αύτῷ τούς έπιλέκτους.

page 175 note 3 Eπαρίτος is found as proper name at Cyme.