From jbutrica@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Thu Nov 7 07:14:01 2002 Received: from mailscan3.cac.washington.edu (mailscan3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.10) with SMTP id gA7FDxdr043690 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 07:13:59 -0800 Received: FROM mxu4.u.washington.edu BY mailscan3.cac.washington.edu ; Thu Nov 07 07:13:59 2002 -0800 Received: from cerberus.ucs.mun.ca (cerberus.ucs.mun.ca [134.153.2.162]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with ESMTP id gA7FDwg3028738 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 07:13:59 -0800 Received: from [134.153.128.98] (drusus.clas.mun.ca [134.153.128.98]) by cerberus.ucs.mun.ca (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gA7FDmdp002112 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:43:50 -0330 (NST) X-Sender: jbutrica@pop.morgan.ucs.mun.ca Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <000701c28613$173efde0$fdac3b18@t9q0o0> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 12:44:07 +0100 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: James Butrica Subject: Re: a metrical query >Sorry, I was too lazy to look up the Greek form of the word and assumed that >whoever said it would be 'echthlipsis' was right. My point was that even if >it were 'echthlipsis' with a chi and theta in Greek, it would still turn to >'ecthlipsis' with only one H in Latin. (I'm pretty sure that the rule that >Greek chi-theta becomes Latin cth, not chth, applies anywhere, not just the >beginning of the word. But I haven't tracked down the Housman reference.) > >Michael Hendry If you do find it, please let us know; excrucior over this. It's not in what would seem the obvious place, "Greek Nouns in Latin Poetry from Lucretius to Juvenal," Journal of Philology 31 (1910) 236-266, which is concerned with declensional endings. In 1888, in "Emendationes Propertianae," he hadn't yet worked this out; at Prop. 2.13.38 his lemma contains the form "Phthii," which he does not propose to correct. Yet he did most certainly make the point somewhere, since it is reflected in editions like Giardina's of Book 2 and Richardson's and Goold's Loeb. The index of "Classical Papers" (which really needs to be much fuller) gives no hint. Could it be in one of the prefaces? James L. P. Butrica Department of Classics The Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's NL A1C 5S7 (709) 737-7914 / (709) 753-5799 (home) .