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[651] Ἐνυαλίωι ἀνδρεϊφόντηι: if this reading is right there is a violent synizesis of “-ωι ἀν-” into one syllable. But we ought to write “ἀδριφόντηι” (or rather “ἀδροφόντηι”), where “ἀδρι-” is a lighter form of “ἀνδρι-”: and so “λιποῦσ᾽ ἀδροτῆτα” 16.857 (where see note), 22.363, for “ἀνδροτῆτα”, like “α?̓βρότη ἀμφι?́-βροτος”, where the “β” has, like the “δ” of “ἀνδρι”, arisen from the nasal, which then disappeared (H. G. § 370 n.). Similar forms are “α?̓”（“μ”）“πλακήματα” Aisch. Eum. 934, “ἀνα^”（“μ”）“πλάκητοι” Soph. O. T. 472, “ἀ”（“μ”）“πλακών” Eur. Alc. 242, where also the MSS. mostly give the “μ.” Cf. “ἀδρί: ἀνδρί”, Hesych. In the Cyprian inscriptions the nasal is regularly omitted before a consonant (and so often in mod. Greek, e.g. “ἄθρωπος”).

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 934
    • Euripides, Alcestis, 242
    • Homer, Iliad, 16.857
    • Homer, Iliad, 22.363
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 472
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