ἡμὶν as a trochee is frequent in Soph. (Ellendt counts 26 instances), but does not occur in Eur., nor in Aesch., except in Eum. 347, where Porson's ἁμίν for ἁμῖν seems necessary. Modern edd., with Dind., usu. write ἡμίν: others, as Nauck and Ellendt, would always write ἧμιν, for which the old grammarians afford some warrant (cp. Chandler, Accent. 2nd ed. § 673): while others, again, would distinguish an emphatic ἡμίν from a non-emphatic ἦμιν (cp. Hadley and Allen, Greek Gram. § 264).
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