On Post Epic Or Imitative Words in Homer

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P. 309) admits that the Homeric forms yai*. >, re\w, Ka\>, \u, &c. , " apud Athenienses tritissima sunt, " and says (p. 307) " in omnibus his formis lingua Homerica ad amussim cum vetere Attica dialecto conspirat. " One would think that a large importation of Atticisms of the Periclean period was a much more reasonable theory than that such forma belonged to the language of B. C. 800. Cobet's convenient theory (p. 341) that Homer used either the resolved Ionic form or the contracted Attic form ...in such words as Srji'ot, vircpdiov, i)i6eos, TpauaSey, ^i'a, seems framed to account for evident anomalies.
language existed two centuries before Peisistratus is to assume that the Greek language remained stationary for four cen- turies. 1 The general epic character of the Homeric poems is one thing ; the class of words imported into it from the latest recensions is quite another. The argument, so often urged on the other side, that the whole style and conception, as well as the diction, of the Iliad and Odyssey, are manifestly very archaic, is perfectly worthless, and for this reason : every epic poem, however late, e.


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