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[465] πέποσθε. Eustath. says “Ἀρίσταρχος πέπασθε γράφει, ὅπερ ἐστὶ κέκτησθε”. Probably the reading should be adopted, but not the interpretation of Eustath. The normal form in Homer would be from an original “πέ-παθ-τε” (not “πε-πόνθα-τε”, for the strong form of the root and the vowel “α” are not found in the 1st and 2nd pers. plur. till later). Then “πέπαθτε” may become “πέπασθε”, 1st by assimilation “πέπαθθε”, and then by dissimilation. The three forms of the root are “πενθ, πονθ”, and the weak form “παθ”, but not “ποθ”. The form of the participle “πεπαθυίῃ” occurs in Od.17. 555.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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