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 OF THE GREEK DRAMATISTS. 373 ^ao■lXc^9, tTTTTcv?, form their nom. pi. in rjs, as /3a(nXrjs, iTnrfjs. The accus. pi. of these nouns ends in -eas, but we have rovs re Sto-o-apxo-s oAeWas ySao-iXets in Soph. Aj. 383, and it seems not improbable that we ought to restore cftovets for (f>oveas in ^sch. Ag. 1296. (9) The following is the declension of vavs in the dramatists ; Sing. PI. N. V. vai;s m€9, vrjc% G. vaos, V7]6% v€(os vawv, i/7;(ov, vcwv D. i/at, vi7t vavtrt A. vavv, vfja, via vfja';, veas, vavs (10) In the second declension we have often -ews for -aos, as in vews for vaos, tAecos for tXaos, Meve'Aecos for MeveXaos, &c. (11) Both TrAeos and TrAecus are common in the dramatists. (12) The gen. pi. of yoVu is not only yovdrwv or yowdroiv, but also yowwi/j 8opv has gen, sing. Sopos, dat. Sopi', Ion. Sovptj x^'-P ^^^^ both X^i-pos and x^pos, &c. (13) The proper names 'AttoAAwv and^'Apr;? have the following pe- culiarities of inflexion : 'AttoXXcdv, ace. 'ATroXkiova and 'AttoAAo) j "AprjSj gen. "Apeos, dat. "Apet, accus. ''Apryv and "Ap?;. (14) There are many passages in Sophocles where Svo is required by an elision or the necessity for a short syllable; none, excepting about four, where the word occurs at the end of a line, in which the form Svtu would be admissible. The form Svolvy on the other hand, seems prefer- able to Sveiv. (15) In the pronouns we have Ketvos as well as eKcivosj o-W€v as well as crov; and otov, orw, orots are preferred to ovtlvos, ^tlvl, oXcTTLcn. (16) In the verbs the genuine forms of the imperative plural are retained; thus we have SpwvTojv instead of Sparwo-av, cTrtxatpdvTwi/ instead of eTTtxatpeTOJcrav, ac^atpetV^cov instead of dffiaLpeLaOoicrav, TVTTTiarOuiv in- stead of TV7rT€a$oi(Tav, &c. (17) Yerbs of which the future ends in -ao-w, -ea-w, -to-w, -oau) drop the (T and contract the resulting syllables. Thus we have o-xcSw, KaXw, otKTtw, o/xov/xaL, for axcSacra), Kaeo-co, olKTicroi, o/xo(To/xat. But this con- traction does not take place when the syllable preceding the -acrw, -icrwy &c. is long by nature or position. Thus we never adopt this contracted form for aTt/xacro), apKccrw, alviao), &c. (18) The genuine forms of the reduplication are preserved in yiyvo- ^at and ytyvwo-Kw, and there seems to be no sufficient reason for ever