Page:On two Greek inscriptions, from Kamiros and Ialysos, in Rhodes, respectively (1878).djvu/9

Rh the Rhodians during the time of their independence.

This inscription is written in a strong Doric, in which may be noted, l. 4,🇬🇷. l. 2, 🇬🇷. The infinitive termination, 🇬🇷 for 🇬🇷, is considered by Ahrens, De Dorica dial. p. 315, peculiar to Rhodes and its colonies in Sicily. He notices traces of it in the Sicilian poet, Epicharmos. Compare the inscription from Agrigentum, Böckh, C. I. No. 5491, ibid. 5475, and the Rhodian inscriptions, ibid. 2525 b., 2905.

l. 6, 🇬🇷, l. 7, 🇬🇷 compare infra, 🇬🇷 and 🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, 🇬🇷 in an inscription from Kalymna, Böckh, 2671.

l. 10, 🇬🇷 for 🇬🇷. 🇬🇷, 🇬🇷 are given in the Lexicons as poetic forms of 🇬🇷, 🇬🇷.

According to our reading of Hesychios, s. v., the Syracusans wrote 🇬🇷, for 🇬🇷, but Ahrens, p. 86, doubts whether Hesychios was right in identifying these two words, and Schmidt, in his edition of Hesychios, corrects 🇬🇷 for 🇬🇷. The converse change of 🇬🇷 for 🇬🇷 is noted in certain Lakonian words by Hesychios, Ahrens, p. 85.

l. 3 and 17 we have 🇬🇷, l. 10, 🇬🇷, the first, would, probably, be the older form, line 3, 🇬🇷, the 🇬🇷 has been omitted through oversight in the preposition.

I have now to submit the inscription from Ialysos.