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Some Late Greek Ghost-Words

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

L. R. Palmer
Affiliation:
University of Manchester.

Extract

In a recent note (Rev. de Phil. 1936, 208) Mr. T. B. Allen had corrected a reading of J. B. Cramer (Anecdota Oxoniensia II 56) βρβειος οὐρ to προβτειος., but in a footnote he adds ‘When I made this correction I was not aware of the word πρβειος. Liddell and Scott and Sophocles share my ignorance. I found it in the Anecdota of Boissonade III 408: κ δ τν κρεν ρνιθας σθειν κα πρβεια κα περιστερς sim. 410, 412, 419. Boissonade quotes the word from a similar treatise by Hierophilus, and the 1851 edition of Stephanus reproduces his note.’ This trisyllabic word πρβειος is obviously a ‘Reimbildung’ to ἄρνειος, μσχειος, ταρειος etc., and its occurrence clears up a papyrus reading which has long puzzled me. In P. Lond. 113, 10, 13 [VII] we read πρωβαων δερμτων, which Preisigke lists as ‘πρβαιος=προβτειος’ Until reading Allen's note I had supposed that the loss of the syllable -ατ- in προβτ-ειος, was a haplography induced by the following δερμ-τ-ων but there are now grounds for regarding the formation as genuine. Only the variation of the adjectival suffix -ειος × -αιος presents a difficulty. In clearing this up we shall be able to lay a number of ghost-words which have spooked in the second edition of Mayser's Grammatik der ptolemäischen Papyri.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1939

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References

page 31 note 1 Reproduced by Chantraine, , Formation des noms, p. 53Google Scholar.

page 31 note 2 J. Theol. Stud. 1934, 170 ff.

page 31 note 3 Vid. Mayser I, 370.

page 32 note 1 E.g. χυδεοτρων (=−αιοτρων) P. Lond. 1349, 27; ρταβιεος P. Flor. 369, 14, for which L. and S.9 prints ρταβειος, etc.

page 32 note 2 ρταβῳ P. Hamb. 19, 22 [III]; ρταβιας P. Teb. 119, 11 [ii B.C.]. On the coalescence of -ιεο, -ιειο etc. see below.

page 32 note 3 Sandsjoe, , Die Adjectiva in -αιος. Uppsala, 1918Google Scholar.

page 32 note 4 Cf. χοαῖος Hippol. ap. Athen.

page 32 note 5 E.g. διμοιριαῖος P. Masp. 126, 23 [VI], but διμοιραῖος Just, and SB III; ξαμηνιαῖος WO 1552 [I], but ξαμηναῖος Vit. Epih.

page 32 note 6 On this see J. Theol. Stud. 1934, p. 171 ff.

page 32 note 7 An interesting parallel is the series of new adjectives formed from the adverbs ἄνω, ἔσω, and ἔξω: νωτρειος Arch. I 63, 13, but ξωτεριαῖος and σωτεριαῖος P. Ox. 498, 18. Cf. further αὔλειος Attic etc., αὐλαῖος LXX etc., αὔλιος Men. and Hsch.

page 33 note 1 But χοριος P. Flor. 31, 6 and often; on the other hand note χἠνεος SB III and συγρεος P. Zen. III, συγρειος SB III.