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[255] θᾶττον: if the hymn is Boeotian (see Pref. p. lxxiii), this form is probably a survival of the Boeotian dialect remaining in the hymn. The form “ἔλαττον” occurs in the same Oropian inscr. which supports “ἡχοῦ” in 400 (where see note). On “ττ”=“σς” in Boeotian see Meister die griech. Dialekte i. p. 264 f. Baumeister retains “θᾶττον” as an Atticism, but in that case it must have ousted an original “θᾶσσον”, as the hymn must be earlier than the use of “ττ” for “σς” in

ἐΠεί, “or else,” as in Il. 15.228.


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