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Passage 1.507
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1.507
υ and σ accent rules in adverbs
'υ' ἔϋ. εἶπον δὲ μὴ μελετήσαντα τὸ 'ς' ἔχειν, διὰ τὸ ἰθύς ἰθύ, εὐθύς εὐθύ ὀξυνόμενα· δισύλλαβα διὰ τὸ μεταξύ, μεσσηγύ καὶ τὸ ἀντικρύ, ὅτε χωρὶς τοῦ 'ς'· ὅτε γάρ ἐστι μετὰ τοῦ 'ς', προπαροξύνεται· ὡς καὶ τὸ ἐμβραχύ σημαῖνον τὸ ἁπαξαπλῶς ἢ καθάπαξ. * Τὰ Αἰολικῶς διὰ τοῦ 'υϊ' ἐκφερόμενα βαρύνεται καὶ τοπικὴν σχέσιν δηλοῖ οἷον πήλυϊ, ἄλλυϊ, ἀτέρυϊ, τούτυϊ· τὸ ὀτοτύϊ παρὰ τὸ ὀτοτοῖ παροξυνόμενον ἀπολογίαν ἔχει ὡς οὐκ ἔστιν τοπικὸν οὔτε Αἰολικόν, σχετλιαστικὸν δέ· τὰ σχετλιαστικὰ οὐ πεφρόντικε τῆς ἀκριβοῦς ἐξετάσεως, ὡς πολλάκις διείληπται. * Τὰ εἰς 'ο' λήγοντα ἐπιρρήματα ὑπὲρ μίαν συλλαβὴν οὐκ ἔστιν ὅτι μὴ τὸ δεῦρο βαρυνόμενον. τὸ γὰρ εἰς ὃ δύο μέρη λόγου εἰσίν καὶ τὸ ἀπό πρόθεσίς ἐστιν ἰσοδυναμοῦσα τῷ ἄποθεν ἐπιρρήματι. τὸ γοῦν δεῦρο παρακελευσματικὸν ὂν ἔχει τὸ δεῦτε πληθυντικόν· γίνεται δὲ καὶ δευρί παρὰ Ἀττικοῖς· ποιητικῶς δὲ κατ´ ἐπέκτασιν τοῦ 'ο' εἰς 'ω' δεύρω. ὅπερ εἴρηται παρὰ τῷ ποιητῇ ἅπαξ ἐν τῷ »ἦ δεύρω μὲν ἕποντο« (Γ 240), ἐνίοτε καὶ δεῦρυ. Πᾶν ἐπίρρημα εἰς 'ω' λῆγον παραγωγόν, μὴ Δώριον πρὸ μιᾶς ἔχει τὸν τόνον, ἄνω, κάτω, ἔξω, εἴσω, πρόσω καὶ πόρσω καὶ τροπῇ Ἀττικῇ τοῦ 'σ' εἰς 'ρ' ὡς ἄρσην ἄρρην πόρρω, ἄφνω· παρὰ τὸ ἀφανής ἀφανῶς ὡς εὐσεβής εὐσεβῶς καὶ συγκοπῇ καὶ ἀποβολῇ τοῦ 'ς' καὶ ἀναδρομῇ τοῦ τόνου διὰ τὸν χαρακτῆρα ἄφνω. ἑκαστέρω τὸ πορρωτέρω ἀπὸ τοῦ ἑκάς, ὃ σημαίνει τὸ ἄποθεν, καὶ οὐ παρὰ τὸ ἑκάτερος, ἑκατέρω γὰρ ἦν. πορρωτέρω, ἐγγυτέρω, ἀνωτάτω, ἐγγυτάτω, ἀπωτέρω, περαιτέρω. τὸ δὲ ἄνεῳ προπαροξύνεται· τὸ ἰώ ὀξύνεται, ἀνακλητικὸν ὂν καὶ οὐκ ὂν παραγωγόν· καὶ τὸ ἐπισχερώ ὀξύτονον. τὸ δὲ
‘υ’ ἔϋ. And I said that one must not, without having studied it, assume that it has ‘ς’, because ἰθύς, εὐθύς are accented acute; (it is) disyllabic because of μεταξύ, μεσσηγύ and ἀντικρύ, when (they are) without ‘ς’; for when it is with ‘ς’, it is accented on the antepenult, as also ἐμβραχύ, meaning “simply” or “once for all.” * The forms pronounced Aeolically with ‘υϊ’ are accented grave and indicate a local relation, e.g. πήλυϊ, ἄλλυϊ, ἀτέρυϊ, τούτυϊ; ὀτοτύϊ, which is accented on the penult from ὀτοτοῖ, has a defense, since it is neither local nor Aeolic, but exclamatory; and exclamatory forms have not been the object of exact investigation, as has often been stated. * Of the adverbs ending in ‘ο’ with more than one syllable, there is none except δεῦρο, accented grave. For εἰς ὃ consists of two parts of speech, and ἀπό is a preposition equivalent to the adverb ἄποθεν. Accordingly δεῦρο, being hortatory, has the plural δεῦτε; and among the Attics there is also δευρί; and poetically, by lengthening ‘ο’ to ‘ω’, δεύρω. This has been said by the poet once in “ἦ δεύρω μὲν ἕποντο” (Γ 240), and sometimes also δεῦρυ. Every adverb ending in ‘ω’ that is derivative, if not Doric, has the accent on the syllable before the last: ἄνω, κάτω, ἔξω, εἴσω, πρόσω and πόρσω, and by the Attic change of ‘σ’ to ‘ρ’, as ἄρσην ἄρρην, πόρρω, ἄφνω; from ἀφανής (comes) ἀφανῶς, as from εὐσεβής (comes) εὐσεβῶς, and by syncope and loss of ‘ς’ and recession of the accent because of the form, ἄφνω. ἑκαστέρω, and πορρωτέρω, are from ἑκάς, which means ἄποθεν, and not from ἑκάτερος; for it would have been ἑκατέρω. πορρωτέρω, ἐγγυτέρω, ἀνωτάτω, ἐγγυτάτω, ἀπωτέρω, περαιτέρω. But ἄνεῳ is accented on the antepenult; ἰώ is accented acute, being a vocative call and not derivative; and ἐπισχερώ is oxytone. But the …

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