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§ 575 — C. Pharr Homeric Greek 1

Text based on: Pharr C. Homeric Greek: a Book for Beginners. Boston etc.: D. C. Heath and Co. 1920.

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Elision. – A short final vowel (very rarely the diphtongs αι and οι also) is regularly dropped when the next word begins with a vowel or a diphtong. This is called elision. An apostrophe (') marks the omission, as στέμματ' ἔχων (for στέμματa ἔχων) having fillets, οἴκαδ' ἱκέσθαι (οἴκαδε ἱκέσθαι) to arrive home, ἐπ' ὤμων (ἐπι ὤμων) on his shoulders.