Discussion of accentuation in Greek compound words, with Homeric examples (proparoxytone, oxytone, anabibazein), formation with suffixes like -κλυτός, -ἰατρός, effects of diphthongs on accent.
Τὰ δὲ παρασύνθετα καὶ φυλάττει καὶ ἀναβιβάζει, ἐκλεκτός ἐκ τοῦ ἐκλέγω, ἐπίλεκτος ἐκ τῆς ἐπί καὶ τοῦ λεκτός. ἀνεκτός ὀξύνεται «ἦ δὴ λοίγια ἔργα τάδ´ ἔσσεται οὐκέτ´ ἀνεκτά» (Il. Α 573). διαμετρητός ἐστι παρασύνθετον· τὸ γὰρ ῥῆμα συντέθειται ἐν τῷ «χῶρον μὲν πρῶτον διεμέτρεον» (Γ 315). ὑγιῶς ἄρα τὸ «διαμετρητῷ» (Il. Γ 344). Ἀρίσταρχος περισπᾷ καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι. καὶ οὕτως ἔχει ἡ παράδοσις. οὕτω καὶ τὸ ἐπαινετός ὀξύνεται, ὅτι ἀπὸ ῥήματος συνθέτου γέγονε, τὸ δὲ ἐξαίρετος βαρύνεται. τὸ δὲ «ἄφαρ δ´ ἀνάπυστα θεοὶ θέσαν ἀνθρώποισι» (Od. λ 274) προπαροξυτόνως, περιττῆς οὔσης τῆς ἀνά ἀντὶ τοῦ πυστά ἐξηκουστά. —τὸ δὲ ἰατρός φιλίατρος ἀναβιβάζει καὶ ἐν τῷ ἀρχιατρός καὶ ἱππιατρός φυλάττει. τὸ δὲ κλειτός καὶ κλυτός εἰ μὲν μετὰ ἀπτώτου συντεθῇ ὑπὲρ μίαν συλλαβήν, φυλάσσει τὴν ὀξεῖαν τάσιν οἷον κλειτός ἀγακλειτός, κλυτός περικλυτός, ἀγακλυτός. εἰ δὲ μετὰ πτωτικοῦ ἢ ἀπτώτου μονοσυλλάβου, προπαροξύνεται, πρόκλυτος «πρόκλυτ´ ἀκούοντες ἔπεα θνητῶν ἀνθρώπων» (Υ 204), ὀνομάκλυτος, τοξόκλυτος, Ἡράκλειτος. διὸ σημειούμεθα τὸ ναυσικλυτός ὀξυνόμενον. ὅτι γὰρ σύνθετόν ἐστι, δῆλον ἐκ τοῦ μένειν τὸ 'α' τῆς ναυσί δοτικῆς. κατ´ ἰδίαν γὰρ παρὰ τῷ ποιητῇ ἢ διὰ τοῦ 'η' λέγεται ἢ διὰ τοῦ 'ε', ἐν δὲ συνθέσει διὰ τοῦ 'α', Ναυσικάα, Ναυσίθοος. τὸ δὲ δουρὶ κλυτός ἐν παραθέσει ἐστίν. εἰ γὰρ ἦν ἐν συνθέσει, ἤμελλε προπαροξύνεσθαι ὡς μετὰ πτωτικοῦ συντεθὲν καὶ ἀναβιβάσαν τὸν τόνον. Τὰ παρὰ τὸ ἀείδω γινόμενα, εἰ μὲν τῇ 'ῳ' διφθόγγῳ παραλήγονται, ὀξύνεται, τραγῳδός, κωμῳδός, μελῳδός· εἰ δὲ τῇ 'οι' διφθόγγῳ, εἰ μὲν ὑπὲρ τέσσαρας συλλαβὰς ὦσι, προπαροξύνεται, λιγυάοιδος, ὑπεράοιδος· εἰ δὲ τέσσαρες, ὁμοίως, ὑμνάοιδος, ἐπάοιδος, λυράοιδος. τὰ δ´ ἐξ αὐτῶν ὀξύνεται, ὑμνῳδός, ἐπῳδός, λυρῳδός. Ὅσα ἀπὸ γενικῆς εἰς 'ος' συντίθενται, προπαροξύνεται, πλὴν τῶν
The parasynthēta both preserve and raise the accent: ἐκλεκτός from ἐκλέγω, ἐπίλεκτος from ἐπί and λεκτός. ἀνεκτός is accented on the acute: “ἦ δὴ λοίγια ἔργα τάδ´ ἔσσεται οὐκέτ´ ἀνεκτά” (Il. Α 573). διαμετρητός is a parasynthēton; for the verb is compounded in “χῶρον μὲν πρῶτον διεμέτρεον” (Γ 315). Therefore “διαμετρητῷ” (Il. Γ 344) is correct. Aristarchus accents it with a circumflex, and the others too; and thus the tradition has it. So too ἐπαινετός is accented on the acute, because it has arisen from a compound verb, whereas ἐξαίρετος is accented on the grave. But “ἄφαρ δ´ ἀνάπυστα θεοὶ θέσαν ἀνθρώποισι” (Od. λ 274) is accented proparoxytone, since ἀνά is superfluous, in place of πυστά, ‘heard’, ‘audible’.—But ἰατρός raises the accent in φιλίατρος, and in ἀρχιατρός and ἱππιατρός it preserves it. And κλειτός and κλυτός, if they are compounded with an indeclinable element of more than one syllable, preserve the acute pitch, e.g. κλειτός, ἀγακλειτός; κλυτός, περικλυτός, ἀγακλυτός. But if with a case-form or with a monosyllabic indeclinable, it is accented proparoxytone: πρόκλυτος, “πρόκλυτ´ ἀκούοντες ἔπεα θνητῶν ἀνθρώπων” (Υ 204), ὀνομάκλυτος, τοξόκλυτος, Ἡράκλειτος. Therefore we mark ναυσικλυτός as accented on the acute. For that it is a compound is clear from the fact that the ‘α’ of the dative ναυσί remains. For separately in the poet it is said either with ‘η’ or with ‘ε’, but in composition with ‘α’: Ναυσικάα, Ναυσίθοος. But δουρὶ κλυτός is in juxtaposition; for if it were in composition, it would have been accented proparoxytone, as compounded with a case-form and having raised the accent. The formations from ἀείδω, if they have the diphthong ‘ῳ’ in the penult, are accented on the acute: τραγῳδός, κωμῳδός, μελῳδός; but if the diphthong ‘οι’, then if they are more than four syllables, they are accented proparoxytone: λιγυάοιδος, ὑπεράοιδος; but if four, likewise: ὑμνάοιδος, ἐπάοιδος, λυράοιδος. But the derivatives from these are accented on the acute: ὑμνῳδός, ἐπῳδός, λυρῳδός. Whatever are compounded from a genitive in -ος are accented proparoxytone, except those of…