The following 12 words having this suffix do not occur in the Attic writers with the exceptions noted: ἅρπασμα (Plato), γνώρισμα, ἐκτύπωμα (Plato), ἔνδυμα, ἐπικάλυμμα, μνημόνευμα, πατάγημα, ῥύτισμα, τόρευμα, ὑπέκκαυμα, ὑπόθημα, φρύαγμα. Of these ἔνδυμα, πατάγημα, ῥύτισμα, τόρευμα, ὑπόθημα, and φρύαγμα in this particular figurative sense make their first appearance in literature in Menander.
-μός.[1]
| Author | No. of different words in -μός |
No. of pages |
Words in -μός in 113 pp. | |
| Menander | ||||
| a. In Körte's Menandrea | 7 | 60 | ||
| b. In all fragments | 17 | 113 | 17 | |
| Aristophanes | 17 | [2] | 537 | 16 |
| Thucydides | 40 | 640 | 15 | |
| Plato | 60 | 2350 | 6 | |
| Demosthenes | 25 | 965 | 13 | |
| Polybius | 75 | 1552 | 12 | |
| Plutarch | 256 | 5177 | 16 | |
The following 11 nouns in -μός used by Menander do not appear in the Attic writers with the one exception noted: ἀγαπησμός, ἀναγνωρισμός, ἀρχαϊσμός, βρυχηθμός, κιγκλισμός, μερισμός (Plato), μυκτηρισμός, νουθετησμός, ὀψωνιασμός, συγκλυσμός, τηγανισμός. Of these ἀγαπησμός, ἀρχαϊσμός, μυκτηρισμός, συγκλυσμός, and τηγανισμός are used by no writer before Menander.
- ↑ According to Mayser, l. c., pp. 446 f., -μός stands next to -μα and -σις among noun-derivatives in the papyri of the period which he covers. Cf. also Jannaris, Hist. Greek Gram., p. 289 § 1021; Lobeck, Parerg. p. 511.
- ↑ According to Menge, l. c., who assigns to Aeschylus 18, to Sophocles 6, and to Euripides 20.
letters are taken as genuine on the authority of the men cited in Christ's Litt.6 p. 707 n1. The number of lines in the extant fragments of Menander I have estimated for myself. Since the Lexicon Plutarcheum of Wyttenbach (Leipzig, 1843) does not distinguish the genuine from the spurious among the works ascribed to Plutarch, no attempt at such a distinction has been made here. (Schmid found the same method necessary in his Atticismus. See l. c. IV p. 641 n. 57.) A standard page of 30 Teubner lines is used throughout.
This number is taken on the authority of Menge, de poetarum scaen. graec. sermone, diss. Göttingen, 1905, p. 47. He gives also Aeschylus' total as 120, Sophocles' as 94, Euripides' as 205.
