[B-Greek] EIKOSI with movable-nu?

Dirk Jongkind dj214 at cam.ac.uk
Tue Aug 30 11:48:22 EDT 2005


Carl W. Conrad wrote:

>LSJ-Glare notes the form EIKOSIN in Homer (more commonly EEIKOSIN, in  
>Aristophanes as regular, in Herodotus, in Philodemus (definitely  
>Hellenistic), but says it's not found in papyri or inscriptions. The  
>supplement notes a Doric form IKATIN before a consonant in a fragment  
>of Callimachus. So apparently it very rarely does appear, but it's  
>not a standard or common form. 
>
Just a quick check in the ConcEyst database (Greek inscriptions from 
Asia, free download!) gives a twenty odd instances, though a few of them 
reconstructions.
Likewise the Duke Databank gives five instances.

Which proves the point that though LSJ was impressive for its time, 
times have changed.

Cheers,
Dirk Jongkind





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