ποτί: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῐ], Dor. for [[πρός]], also used in Ep. (as Il.1.426, al., Call.''Del.''210, al.), and rarely in Hp., esp.in phrase <b class="b3">ποτί καί</b> and [[also]], i.e. [[especially]], [[Art]]. 8,41, 46, 57, 69, without [[καί]] only in ''Fract.''3 (but not in Hdt.), whether in or out of compos.; sometimes in Trag. (lyr., exc. A.''Eu.''79) as A.''Th.''295, 346, ''Ag.''725, ''Eu.'' l. c., S.''Fr.''245, E.''Hipp.''140 (and in compds., as [[ποτινίσσομαι]], [[ποτιμάστιος]], [[ποτιπίπτω]], [[ποτιτρόπαιος]]). The elision of ι before a vowel is found once in Pi., viz. ''O.''7.90 (elsewhere Pi. uses [[πρός]] before a vowel); but found in later Dor., as Epich.170.7, ''IG''42(1).121.20 (Epid., iv B. C.), Theoc.7.26, especially in compds., v. [[ποθίερος]], [[πόθοδος]], [[ποθολκίς]], [[πόταγε]], [[ποταγωγίς]], [[ποταείδω]], [[ποταμέλγω]], [[ποταυλέω]], etc.; freq. apocop. before the Art., <b class="b3">πὸτ τῶ</b>, for <b class="b3">πρὸς τοῦ</b>, Theoc.4.50, 5.74; πὸτ τῷ ''SIG''247 iii 11 (Delph., iv B. C.); πὸτ τόν ''IG''5(1).1.18, al. (Sparta); <b class="b3">πὸτ τάν</b>, for <b class="b3">πρὸς τήν</b>, Pi.''Fr.''122.5 ([[si vera lectio|s.v.l.]]), [[Aristophanes|Ar.]]''[[Acharnians|Ach.]]''732, etc.; πὸτ τό ib.751, ''Lys.''117, etc.; <b class="b3">πὸτ τώς</b> Foed.Lacon. ap. Th.5.77; πὸτ τάς Ar.''Lys.''1264 (lyr.); <b class="b3">πὸτ τά</b> ib.1253 (lyr.); πὸτ τούτοισι Epich.60: less freq. in Verbs, ποτθέμειν Id.170.10; ποτθέντες ''Tab.Heracl.''2.30; also <b class="b3">πο-</b>, as in ποτόν ''Schwyzer'' 412 (Elis), ποτούς ''IG''9(1).334.32 (Locr.); πὸδ [[Δάφνη]] ib.7.518.5 (Tanagra, iii B. C.); πὸκ κατόπτας ''Schwyzer'' 485.10 (Thespiae, iii B. C.); ποί in Argolic, esp. before dentals, ''IG''42(1).102.63, al. (Epid., iv B. C.), sometimes in other Dor. dialects, as Delphic, ib. 22.1126.26, etc. Cf. [[προτί]]. (Cf. Avest. paiti 'to': the form [[ποί]] has prob. lost τ by dissimilation from a following dental.)