Note 48:1 — Chapter II

Thus at the end of a famous epigram on Thermopylæ composed in Laconian Greek, and reformed into literary language, χιλιάδες τέτορες remained, because τέσσαρες would not scan. Fick has now applied his theory to the early Lyric poets, and even printed a revised text of most of them in Bezzenberger's Beiträge, xi, xiii, and xiv, &c. I have criticised the newer developments of his theory in the third ed. of my Greek Literature.