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 412 ON THE LANGUAGE, METRES AND PROSODY, &C. 18. The plain truth, however, stands thus: that k/x and ^//,, (with Xft, v, TV,) though never used as initial to any word, yet within the same words are found permissive much too often to admit the shadow of a doubt on that head. PJloen. 351. Kat yap jxirp' dvOpo)7roL(n kol jxeprj o-ra-^/xwv may be taken for one undisputed example; there is no want of more. 19. How far in the different pairs of consonants which have been defined as non-permissive (§ 3), a physical necessity was the obstacle, in some at least, if not in others, might be a question for anatomy rather than for criticism. Special Rules of Quantity. 1. *H/xtV and vjxlv, when so written for ^/xtv, r/Atv, have the last syl- lable short in Sophocles. Elmsley has thus stated the case. Solus e tragicis secundam in rjplv et vplv corripit Sophocles, monente Porsono Prcefat. p. xxxvii. Id in integris fabulis bis et quadragies extra melica fecit. Septies autem necessario produxit ante vocalem ; (Ed. Tyr. 631, (Ed. Col. 826, Track. 1273, Aj. 689, El. 355, 454, 1381. Quae omnia emendationis egere suspicari videtur Porsonus. Ego vero casu potius quam consilio factum puto, ut tam raro ancipitem vocalem necessario produceret Noster. Nam simile quid Euripidi accidisse video. Is, ut monuit Porsonus, posteriorem horum pronominum syllabam nus- quam corripuit. — Quod ad accentum correptse formse attinet, alii yfXLv et vfjiLv, alii -qfJA-v et vpuv scribendum arbitrantur. Hanc scripturam adhibuit Aldus in Ajace et Electrce versibus primis 357, dehinc vero ■^p.tv et v/jllv usque ad finem libri. 'H/x,tv et vfxiv ubique editiones recentiores, quarum scripturam post Brunckium adoptavi. Elmsley, Free/, ad (Edip. Ty- rann. p. x. 2. I is common in Idofiai, tarpo?, XiW, opvL<;. The quantity of this vowel varies in dvLo. and avtapos. Nomen avia, vel avtr}, plerumque penultimam producit, aliquando corripit, ut in quatuor exemplis a Ruhnkenio, Epist. Grit. ii. p. 276, adductis. — Yerbum dvLono vel avta^w, apud Epicos poetas secundam ple- rumque producit, ut et in Soph. Antig. 319. Yerbum aViw apud Aristo- phanem penultimam ter corripit, semel producit Eq. 348. (349, Bekk.) — Semper, nisi fallor, secunda in aviapos ab Euripide et Aristophane cor- ripitur, producitur a Sophocle A^itig. 316. Sed ubique tertia syllaba longa est. Porson. ad Phcen. v. 1334. 3. I is long in kovis, -iv, o^t?, -tv, e.g. -^sch. Pers. 1085, Choeph. 928.