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 OF THE GREEK DRAMATISTS. 371 veoTtts for vcott^?, fJLarrjp for ixTJrrjp, Trarptwrav for TrarpLWTrjv, Si8v/xav for SiSvfxrjvj also wixf^av for wfj.(j>a.oii/, vv/x<^cui/, jSapvfSpeixiTa for /^apv/^pe/xeVao, Papvl3p€fji€Tov, and tlie like. In the dialogue we have 'A^ava, Sapo?, cKart, Koipavov, apape, yafxapo^^ yaTTOTos, yaOovaa, eKa/36o<5, Kwayog, TroSayos, Xo;(ayos, ^vv-ayo?, 07ra8os (Pors. W O^^est. 26; Yalcken. ad Phceniss. 11, 1113; Eijypol. 1092, &c.), apape (Pors. ad Orest 1323 j Valcken. ad Hippol. 1090). Some Doric forms peculiar to ^schylus have been ascribed to his familiarity with the dialect of Sicily (above, p. 97). IV. Tlte Attic Dialect of the Tragedians, and Aristophanes. (1) As a general rule the augment is always prefixed in the indefi- nite tenses of the indicative mood in the dialogue of Ti-agedy ('ide Person, Prcef. Hec. p. iv, cf. Wellauer ad jEsch. Pers. 302). There are some few exceptions, as in the case of XPl^^ avtoya, Ka0€t,6ixr]v, KaOyjixrjv, &c. (Poi-s. Suppl. Prcef. Hec. p. xvi). When the verb begins with the diphthong cu- the temporal augment is rarely expressed; thus evpov and €vpr}Ka are more common than r}vpov, rjvprjKa (see Donaldson, Gr. Gr. p. 196, note). We have both ctKao-a and yKaaa, and the forms ctKa^ov, i$eLKacrfX€va, &c. are supported by the best authorities. We have also both dvfjXoio-a and dvdXoiaa (cf. Yalcken. ad Phcen. p. 222; Hermann, ad Soph. Aj. 1049). It -has been suggested by Matthia (§ 160, Obs.) that the occasional omission of the augment in long speeches by the mes- sengers may be explained by the narrative and epic character of these descriptions, but even here it is limited to the beginning of a line or of a new sentence; and Hermann (Prcef Bacch. pp. L — Lv) has given the following special rules for the cases in which the augment may be omitted : "Prima est: verbum fortius, in quo augment! accessio aal'psestum facit, in principio versus positum, addi augmentum postulat : eyevovTO Krj^a ©ecrrtaSt rpets TrapOevou " Secunda : verbum fortius, in quo augmenti accessio non facit ana- psestum, in principio versus positum, carere potest augmento : acyrjae 8' aWyp' KTVTrr](j€ fjilv Zevs )(06vlos' TraLOVT, eOpavov' TnTTTOV 8' CTT dX'i]XoL(TLV. "Tertia: ejusdemmodi verbum, si incipit sententiam, videtur etiam in medio versu carere augmento posse : quale foret illud, ea, qua, supra dictum est, conditione : 24—2