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The Augment in Homer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. A. J. Drewitt
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Though the problem of the Homeric augment eventually needs a rather intricate handling, it can at first be stated quite simply. Briefly, the facts are these:

A. True present-aorists, such as are seen in the similes and gnomes, take the augment idiomatically. In the whole of the similes there are only sixteen unaugmented aorists; three of the instances are difficult (4, Δ 279, O 682), but the rest could be emended by slight changes.

B.Iteratives do not take the augment; ν 7 is the only certain exception.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , January 1912 , pp. 44 - 59
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1912

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page 44 note 1 Professor Platt.

page 44 note 2 In Ψ 223 possible.

page 44 note 3 Koch, cited by Munro and by Platt.Google Scholar

page 45 note 1 The Clarendon Press edition (rccensuit D. B. Monro, 1901) is used throughoutGoogle Scholar

page 47 note 1 The point has been discussed (Classical Quarterly, April, 1908, pp. 94 sqq.).Google Scholar

page 48 note 1 It is essential that the causes assigned should be possible in Sanskrit too.

page 49 note 1 Of course, not historic present.

page 49 note 2 became disliked.

page 49 note 3 3 cf. A 735, which is clearly past.

page 52 note 1 The figures include only those instances which occur in the introductions or resumptions of speeches.

page 52 note 2 The accent is neglected, as it was , etc.

page 53 note 1 Really a speech-augment (B 402); the natural ictus is . II 182 is Odyssean, but perhaps not quite so difficult as , because of the Π

page 53 note 2 The line shows five rarities, and the scansion is unexampled, even in the speeches.

page 55 note 1 The treatment of the imperfect is less conservative.

page 56 note 1 , etc., are here omitted, since ενis hardly a possible scansion. Type must be compared with , etc. An admissive augdactyl is the most convenient scansion of all; and type a little outnumbers type but not type +type .

page 56 note 2 In the Iliad without B2 etc. (narrative) there are forty-six instances of type , eighteen instances of the corresponding aug mented aorists (, etc.).

page 58 note 1 If such a phrase applies to the genially atasthalous K, who is also responsible for the scansion

page 58 note 1 For brevity I use ‘admissive’ to mean beginning with a vowel.

page 58 note 2 By ‘Adonian ’ I mean any kind of; the special scansion will be called an Adoniac.