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Apollonius Adeerbs : πρόσθε, * before,’ appears as πρόσθα,
wnd the elision is to be so taken in Aleman:

before Lycean Apollo
Τί

Old Eunnologicum Magnan : ἀφθονέστατον ‘most plentiful:
- and the superlative αἰδοιέστατον «most reverend’ as in
Aleman, for instance:

most reverend unto Gods and men

- tod
(8, 19
Apollonius Pronowns : The pronoun ἅμιν § to us,’ as declined

in Dorie, shortens the ὁ when it is circumflexed upon the last
syllable but one:

Would this were business of ours !
ant an acute accent also is put upon the last :
He will accompany our song with music of the flute,
as Aleman says.

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Strabo Geography: There is mention of some Phrygian
tribes which cannot be traced, as the Berecyntians ; and
Alcman says:

He piped a Phrygian tune Cerbesian.!

81?

Hephaestion Hindhool: of Metre [on the Zonieum a minore]:
And indeed whole poems have been written in this metre, as
in Aleman :

The saffron-rob¢d Muses this to the far-flinging
Son of Zeus

see Lewis and Short Berecyntus 3. cf. Gram. ap. Herm.
lem. Lote. Metr, 472, Gram. Harl. 332 (as a tetrameter),
richa § fin.

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