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[*] 83. Other peculiarities are the following:— [*] a. Delphīnus, -ī (M.), has also the form delphīn, -īnis; Salamīs, -is (F.) has acc. Salamīna . [*] b. Most stems in ĭd- (nom. -is) often have also the forms of i-stems: as tigris , gen. -ĭdis (-ĭdos) or -is; acc. -ĭdem (-ĭda) or -im (-in); abl. -ĭde or -ī. But many, including most feminine proper names, have acc. -idem (-ida); abl. -ide,—not -im or -ī. (These stems are irregular also in Greek.) [*] c. Stems in on- sometimes retain -n in the nominative: as, Agamemnōn (or Agamemnō ), genitive -ŏnis, accusative -ŏna. [*] d. Stems in ont- form the nominative in -ōn: as, horizōn, Xenophōn; but a few are occasionally Latinized into ōn- (nom. -ō): as, Dracō, -ōnis; Antiphō, -ōnis. [*] e. Like Simoīs are declined stems in ant-, ent-, and a few in ūnt- (nominative in -ās, -īs, -ūs): as, Atlās, -antis; Trapezūs, -ūntis. [*] f. Some words fluctuate between different declensions: as Orpheus between the second and the third. [*] g. -ōn is found in the genitive plural in a few Greek titles of books: as, Metamorphōseōn, of the Metamorphoses (Ovid's well-known poem); Geōrgicōn, of the Georgics (a poem of Virgil).
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