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Declensions.
（a) First declension. Nouns in -α, -η, -ης.
η always becomes α_ in terminations.
Plural nominative -αι, accusative -α^ς (v. 103), and so in adjectives αὐτα^ς (v. 33), καλα^ς (vii. 86).
The dative plural is properly -αις (i. 2), but the Homeric -αισι or -ῃσι are often used.
Genitive plural -ᾶν (i. 12).
Homeric is genitive singular. -αο from nominative -ης (i. 126).
（b) Second declension. Genitive singular -ω for -ου (ii. 95), etc.
Homeric -οιο (ii. 134), etc.
Accusative plural usually -ως (i. 121). Sometimes -ος (i. 90).
Dative plural -οις. Homeric -οισι (iv. 7), etc.
（c) Third declension.
(i) Type γένος. Genitive singular θέρεος (ii. 58). χείλεος (vii. 20). Nominative plural χείλη (i. 29), and τήθεα (ii. 79).
(ii) In other types the chief variation is in dative plural; -σσι or -σι are both used. The latter only is true Doric (vii. 17, vii. 153, viii. 43).
So we have πορθμῆα (xvii. 49), Πηλῆι (xvii. 56), but in pastorals only -ει (i. 58), ἀριστέες (xviii. 17), ἀριστῆες (xiii. 17).
（d) Adjectives in -υς.
These appear both in the Ionic form in feminine ἁδέα (i. 65), and Doric ἁδεῖα (i. 95).
