Συρακούσ-σας (Bacch.[94]), πολ-λῷ (Thuc.), and so Βάκ-χος, Σαπ-φώ, Ἀτ-θίς.
2. If the first of two or more consonants is a liquid or nasal,[95] it is divided from the others.
(Two consonants) ἄμ-φακες, ἐγ-χέσπαλον[96], τέρ-πον (Bacch.), πάν-τες (Thuc.), ἄλ-σος.
(Three consonants) ἁν-θρώποις, ἐρ-χθέντος (Bacch.), ἀν-δρῶν (Thuc.).
But βά-κτρον, κάτο-πτρον, ἐ-χθρός.
(Four consonants) θέλ-κτρον, Λαμ-πτραί.
3. Compounds. For modern printing the preference must be to divide the compounds παρ-όντος, ἐφ-ῃπημένος (Thuc.), but ἀπέ-βη may stand as well as ἀπ-έβη.
H. Stuart Jones.
FOOTNOTES:
[94] The references are to the papyri.