There follows a comparative table of verbs and phrases, alphabetically arranged, showing the constructions of indir. disc. used by Andocides. WH GAJUS OR GAÏUS? BY FREDERIC D. ALLEN. HETHER the praenomen Gaius was two syllables or three, ought not to be a matter of doubt, and there must be plenty of scholars who are well aware of the facts. Nevertheless, misleading statements are found in several of the books to which one would naturally turn for instruction on such a point,' and the writer has often wished that some one would collect the evidence bearing on it. But the immediate occasion of the present attempt is the fact, recently brought to his notice, that the two Latin dictionaries most used in this country — both the work of the same accomplished scholar — give exactly opposite directions for the pronunciation of the word. The evidence for the two forms respectively stands about thus : Testimony for Gaius: Cassius Gaius hic operarius, quem Cephalonem. 1 For instance, in Madvig's grammar, and in Gossrau's (1880), and in Kühner's large grammar (1877), and Schweizer-Sidler's new work (1888), no pronunciation but Gajus (or Cajus) is mentioned. Others represent the trisyllabic form as exceptional or poetic. So Roby's grammar, and Georges' (1879) and Heinichen's (1875) dictionaries. 'stirps' uelut dixit disertus Gracchus alter Gātūs. nomine Longinius, praenomine Gāĭus olim. CIL. X, 8131 (Stabiae). Stallius Gaius has sedes Hauranus tuetur. CIL. X, 2971 (Naples). Γάϊξ, σὸν δὲ πατὴρ χερὶ δέξεται εὐκτὸν ἴουλον. Apollonides, Anth. Pal. x, 19. Γάϊος ἐκπνεύσας τὸ πανύστατον ἐχθὲς ὁ λεπτός. Lucillius, Anth. Pal. xi, 92. ἐγγράψαντες ἄνω, Γάϊος ἐκφέρεται. Ibidem. οὕτω κουφότατος πέλε Γάϊος, ὥστ ̓ ἐκολύμβα. Same, Anth. Pal. xi, 100. Γάϊξ, καὶ σὺ φοβοῦ, μὴ καὶ σέ τις ἐγκαταλέξηι. Γάϊον· ὦ μερόπων ἐλπίδες οὐ μόνιμοι. Inscr. Forum Iulii, Kaibel n. 579, Γάϊος εἱμαρτῇ ἀλόκῳ τόδε σῆμα θανούσῃ. Inscr. Macedonia, Kaibel n. 525; late [Γ] άϊον ̓Ανδρομένους ἐν[θά]δ ̓ ἔχω φθίμενον. Γάϊος οὗτος ἐγώ . . . Testimony for Gajus : Inscr. Galatia, Kaibel n. 405 = CIG. 4132; Kaibel's restoration; probable. Beginning of elegiac inscription; languentem Gāiūm moriturum dixerat olim. Ausonius, Ep. 75 (p. 312, Peiper). quis tu'? Gaius,' ait. uiuisne'? hic abnuit, et quid.' Ibidem. tum Gāiūs: 'metuas nihil. Eunome; dixi ego et omnes.' Ibidem. οὐρανὸν, ὦ Ρώμας, Γαι, πάτρας ἔρυμα. Antipater, Anthol. Palat. ix, 59. ΣΤΗΛΑΙΣ Ἰούλιος ἔν[θα] πατρὸς Γαίου κατάκειμαι. Inscr. Thessaly, Bull. Corr. Hell. xiii, p. 392. κ(αὶ) παῖδες φθιμένο[ιο] περικ[λείτ]ου [Γ] α ίο [ι] ο. Inscr. Galatia, Kaibel n. 405 = CIG. 4132; Priscian, vii, p. 302 K. (Hertz): "de 'Pompei' et 'Vultei' et 'Gai' et similibus uocatiuis, quae i loco consonantis ante 'us' habent in nominatiuis, dubitatur utrum i extrema pro uocali an pro consonante sit accipienda, quomodo in aliis casibus, quod magis more antiquo rationabilius esse uidetur. Nam solebant illi non solum in principio sed etiam in fine syllabae ponere i loco consonantis, idque in uetustissimis inuenies scripturis, quotiens inter duas uocales ponitur, ut ‘eiius,' 'Pompeiius,' 'Vulteiius,' 'Gaiius." Probus, p. 104 K., gives Gaius as the pattern of nouns which “ ius syllaba definiuntur," as distinguished from those which "us syllaba post i litteram definiuntur" (pattern Sempronius). 66 Marius Victorinus, p. 24, 1. 21 K.: 'sibi autem ipsa subiungitur in his, utaiio,' Troiia,' 'Gaiius,' 'Aiiax.'" 1 There is a penumbra of doubtful cases, with which I did not encumber the above list. For completeness' sake I will enumerate them. (1) Lucian Müller has conjectured another Gaius into Lucilius (xxvi, 1 = 859 Lachm., nam Gāžūm for Manium). (2) On the other hand the Ausonian examples of Gajus may well be increased by three, as the substitution of Gaius, Gaio for Caesar, Caesare as the name of Caligula in the 'Caesares'2 has everything in its favor except the manuscripts. (3) On which side Talavós (~1), Kaibel n. 445, should count is not clear, as the Greeks made the ending -iānus either -tăvós or -tavós; but -tavós is more common. 1 But a little further on (p. 27, 1. 9) he gives 'Troiia,' 'aiio,' ' Graiius,' 'Aiiax,' as examples of “i duplicata"; it is therefore very likely that Graiius originally stood in the first passage also. 2 Monost. ii, 4; iv, 4; Tetrast. iv, I. In Peiper's edition, pp. 184, 186, 188. |