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[392] ἠγερέθοντο (compare “ἠγερέθονται” Il.3. 231; “ἠγερέθεσθαι” Il.10. 127) is related to “ἀγείροντο” as “ἠερέθονται” to “ἀείρονται”. The suffix “θ” is called by Curtius a root determinative. It seems to give continuance to the action of the verb, compare “φθίνω” and “φθινίθω, φλέγω” and “φλεγέθω, νέμω” and “νεμέθω”. The same element appears in the “-αθ” of “διωκ-αθ-εῖν, εἰκ-αθ-εῖν”. The steps of formation are these, “ἀγερ-έ-θω”, in which compound “ἀγερ” is the stem (for “ἀγείρω” is equivalent to ἀγερ-j-ω), “ε” is the connecting vowel, and “θω” the new termination. The lengthening of the initial “α” to “η” appears in such words as “ἠνεμόεις”.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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