Fimare in Isidore Author(s): Leo Spitzer Source: The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 61, No. 3 (1940), pp.

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" FIMARE"

IN ISIDORE.

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and has shown that the decree to which it refers must belong before Hippomenes' decree which is dated in 411/0 B. C. Since Hippomenes' motion is in honor of Pythophanes of Karystos, who is mentioned there as already being a proxenos and benefactor of the Athenians, the decree referred to above as Teisamenos' decree may be the one which awarded him the honor of proxenos and benefactor. Line 6 of I. G., II2, 73 also speaks of Teisamenos' decree and, if the interpretation is correct, quotes a part of it beginning E'v Tr in which someone whose name is missing is given protection by the Athenians. Since the space left in line 6 for the name requires nine letters, I suggest that the name of Pythophanes (HIvOoadvrtv) be restored, and that this inscription may then be added to those decrees honoring Pythophanes of Karystos and be dated before 411/0 B. C., probably in 415 B. C. In any case the decree of Teisamenos quoted in I. G., II2, 73 must belong during the period of the Empire. It is possible that I. G., II2, 73 itself may also be as early as the fifth century, though this is not made necessary by the formulae quoted.
ELEANOR WESTON.
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE.

FIMARE IN ISIDORE. To the restoration by A. S. Pease (A.J.P., LXI [1940], p. 80) of a Latin verb fimare "stercorare" in an Isidore passage (the god Stercutus . . . primusque agros fimavit) support can be given by a student in Romance. Meyer-Liibke in his REW3, no. 3307, under the heading *FIMARE "misten" (notice the asterisk!) lists Provencal and Catalonian femar and explains: ' I)a die gallorom. Formen des Subst. *femus, *femita sind, missen die fim- voraussetzenden Abl. lat. sein ": in fact, Latin fimus -i, masc., has become under the influence of the synonym stercus -oris, a neuter in Vulg. Lat.: *ftmus -oris, of which OFr. fiens, OProv. femps, Catalon. ferns (beside fer) with -s preserxed (cf. tempus > tems) and derivatives of *fimora or *fimita in Romance languages bear witness; thus the formation of Romance fimare must have preceded the metaplasm flmus -oris. von Wartburg, FEW, III, p. 548, mentions as the oldest testi-

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LEO SPITZER.

mony for a Vulg. Lat. ftmare, postulated by OFr. femer (Mod. Fr. fumer), OProv. and Catalon. femar, a Carolingian capitulary of 813 A. D. The emended Isidore passage allows us to cancel the asterisk in Romance etymological dictionaries, and the Romance forms in turn add strength to the proposed emendation.
LEO SPITZER.
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY.

THE ATHENIAN SECRETARY PHAIDROS OF CHOLLEIDAI. In 1926 Kirchner republished a small fragmentary inscription in an article entitled Ein WiedergewonnenesPsephisma (Ath. Mitt., LI [1926], p. 157). This text had been intentionally omitted from the Editio Minor as suspect, but the subsequent discoveryof a squeeze of it has established its authenticity beyond doubt. It was restored by Kirchner and dated in the year 339/8 B. C. I wish to connect with it a text which I published in Ilesperia (VII [1938], p. 291), dated by the demotic of the secretary in the year 339/8. His demotic is Cholleides and is to be restored in the text of Kirchner as follows: 339/8 B. C.
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Likewise in the text which I published in Hesperia the name Phaidros is to be restored in line 1.
I wish to point out that the words E'retSlotl rpvrTavet o[i---]

show this to be a prytany-decree, and that it is the earliest preserved text of its kind (cf. Dow, Hesperia, Suppl. I, p. 2).
EUGENE S CHWEIGERT.
THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCEDSTUDY.

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