Aelius Herodianus · On Attic Prosody §1

Fragments on Accentuation and Orthography

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Summary

A collection of fragments from Herodian's *On Attic Prosody* cited in ancient scholia and lexica, discussing the accentuation of the adverb κραγόν, the noun φωριαμός (accented as proparoxytone in Attic), and the noun εἰλυός along with its orthography.

§1## ΠΕΡΙ ΑΤΤΙΚΗϹ ΠΡΟϹΩιΔΙΑϹ. 1.

## ΠΕΡΙ ΑΤΤΙΚΗϹ ΠΡΟϹΩιΔΙΑϹ. 1.

Schol. ad Aristoph.

Eqq. 487: κραγὸν κεκράξεται: Ἀρίϲταρχοϲ ὀξυτόνωϲ ἀντὶ τοῦ κραυγαϲτικῶϲ.

Eqq. 487: κραγὸν κεκράξεται: Aristarchus reads it as oxytone instead of using the adverb "screechingly".

καὶ Ἡρωδιανὸϲ ἐν Ἀττικῇ πρὸϲῳδία. 2.

And Herodian too in *Attic Prosody*. 2.

E. M. 804, 11: φωριαμόϲ ἡ κιβωτόϲ ἢ παρὰ τοὺϲ φῶραϲ, ἐπεὶ πρὸϲ φυλακὴν τούτων κατεϲκεύαϲται, ἢ παρὰ τὸ τὰ φάρη ἔχειν.

E. M. 804, 11: φωριαμός: the chest (κιβωτός); either from "thieves" (φῶρας), since it is constructed for guarding against them, or from holding "garments" (φάρη).

εἰ μὲν οὖν παρὰ τοὺϲ φῶραϲ, οὐδὲν πέπονθεν· εἰ δὲ παρὰ τὰ φάρη τὰ ἐντιθέμενα αὐτῇ, πέπονθε μεταβληθέντοϲ τοῦ α εἰϲ ω ὡϲ θᾶκοϲ θῶκοϲ.

If indeed from "thieves", it has undergone no change; but if from the "garments" placed in it, it has undergone a change, alpha being changed into omega, just as thakos becomes thokos.

τὰ διὰ τοῦ αμοϲ τριϲύλλαβα ἔχοντα τὴν πρὸ τέλουϲ ϲυλλαβὴν φύϲει μακρὰν πάντα μὴ κύρια ὄντα ὀξύνονται χηραμόϲ, οὐλαμόϲ.

All three-syllable words ending in -amos having the penult naturally long, when they are not proper names, are oxytone: chēramos, oulamos.

οὕτωϲ καὶ φωραμόϲ καὶ πλεοναϲμῷ τοῦ ῖ φωριαμόϲ Ἰλιάδοϲ (228).

Thus also phōramos, and with the pleonasm of iota, phōriamos, *Iliad* 24.228.

Ἡρωδιανὸϲ περὶ Ἀττικῶν προϲῳδιῶν, τρίτη ἀπὸ τέλουϲ ἡ ὀξεῖα.

Herodian in *On Attic Prosodies* places the acute on the third syllable from the end.

οὐχ ὡϲ ἀνάλογον, ἀλλ᾿ ὡϲ Ἀττικόν.

Not as according to analogy, but as Attic.

ἡ μέντοι ϲυνήθεια ὀξυνόμενον ἔχει. 3.

However, common usage has it as oxytone. 3.

Cyrilli lexicon Cram.

An.

Paris.

I 181: εἰλυόϲ.

I 181: εἰλυός.

ὀξυτόνωϲ ἡ κατάδυϲιϲ τοῦ θηρίου· οὕτω καὶ Ἡρωδιανὸϲ ἐν τῷ περὶ Ἀττικῶν τόνων βιβλίῳ καὶ μέμφεται τοῖϲ εἰϲ τὸ ι κατατάττουϲι τὴν λέξιν.

As oxytone, the lair (κατάδυσις) of a wild beast; so also Herodian in his book *On Attic Accents*, and he blames those who classify the word under the letter iota (ι).

Notes

1ἀντὶ τοῦ κραυγαϲτικῶϲ — The preposition ἀντί with the genitive neuter article τοῦ substantivizes the adverb κραυγαστικῶς, meaning "instead of [the adverb] 'screechingly'". A verb of reading or pronouncing is omitted in this phrase and throughout the passage.
2μεταβληθέντοϲ τοῦ α εἰϲ ω — A genitive absolute construction where the letter α (treated as neuter) is the subject. μεταβληθέντος is the aorist passive participle (masculine/neuter genitive singular) of μεταβάλλω, meaning "the letter alpha having been changed into omega".
2ὡϲ θᾶκοϲ θῶκοϲ — After the comparative conjunction ὡς, a participle construction is omitted. It is to be understood as an abbreviated structure: "just as θᾶκος [having been changed into] θῶκος".
3μέμφεται τοῖϲ εἰϲ τὸ ι κατατάττουϲι τὴν λέξιν — The verb μέμφομαι (to blame, censure) takes the dative case, here governing the dative plural participle τοῖς κατατάττουσι. The phrase εἰς τὸ ι means "under the letter iota," referring to those who spell or alphabetize the word starting with ι instead of ει.

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Aelius Herodianus, On Attic Prosody §1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0087.tlg006.humanitext-grc1:1

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