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Fimare in IsidoreAuthor(s): Leo SpitzerSource: The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 61, No. 3 (1940), pp. 357-358Published by: The Johns Hopkins University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/290938 .Accessed: 20/09/2013 15:59

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" FIMARE" IN ISIDORE.FIMARE" IN ISIDORE.

and has shown that the decree to which it refers must belongbefore Hippomenes' decree which is dated in 411/0 B. C. SinceHippomenes' motion is in honor of Pythophanes of Karystos,who is mentioned there as already being a proxenos and bene-factor of the Athenians, the decree referred to above as Teisa-menos' decree may be the one which awarded him the honor ofproxenos and benefactor. Line 6 of I. G., II2, 73 also speaks ofTeisamenos' decree and, if the interpretation is correct, quotesa part of it beginning E'v Tr in which someone whose name ismissing is given protection by the Athenians. Since the spaceleft in line 6 for the name requires nine letters, I suggest thatthe name of Pythophanes (HIvOoadvrtv) e restored, and that thisinscription may then be added to those decrees honoring Pytho-phanes of Karystos and be dated before 411/0 B. C., probablyin 415 B. C.

In any case the decree of Teisamenos quoted in I. G., II2, 73must belong during the period of the Empire. It is possiblethat 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 canbe given by a student in Romance. Meyer-Liibke in his REW3,no. 3307, under the heading *FIMARE misten" (notice theasterisk ) 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 synonymstercus -oris, a neuter in Vulg. Lat.: *ftmus -oris, of which OFr.fiens, OProv. femps, Catalon. ferns (beside fer) with -s pre-serxed (cf. tempus > tems) and derivatives of *fimora or *fimitain Romance languages bear witness; thus the formation ofRomance fimare must have preceded the metaplasm flmus -oris.von Wartburg, FEW, III, p. 548, mentions as the oldest testi-

and has shown that the decree to which it refers must belongbefore Hippomenes' decree which is dated in 411/0 B. C. SinceHippomenes' motion is in honor of Pythophanes of Karystos,who is mentioned there as already being a proxenos and bene-factor of the Athenians, the decree referred to above as Teisa-menos' decree may be the one which awarded him the honor ofproxenos and benefactor. Line 6 of I. G., II2, 73 also speaks ofTeisamenos' decree and, if the interpretation is correct, quotesa part of it beginning E'v Tr in which someone whose name ismissing is given protection by the Athenians. Since the spaceleft in line 6 for the name requires nine letters, I suggest thatthe name of Pythophanes (HIvOoadvrtv) e restored, and that thisinscription may then be added to those decrees honoring Pytho-phanes of Karystos and be dated before 411/0 B. C., probablyin 415 B. C.

In any case the decree of Teisamenos quoted in I. G., II2, 73must belong during the period of the Empire. It is possiblethat 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 canbe given by a student in Romance. Meyer-Liibke in his REW3,no. 3307, under the heading *FIMARE misten" (notice theasterisk ) 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 synonymstercus -oris, a neuter in Vulg. Lat.: *ftmus -oris, of which OFr.fiens, OProv. femps, Catalon. ferns (beside fer) with -s pre-serxed (cf. tempus > tems) and derivatives of *fimora or *fimitain Romance languages bear witness; thus the formation ofRomance fimare must have preceded the metaplasm flmus -oris.von Wartburg, FEW, III, p. 548, mentions as the oldest testi-

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mony for a Vulg. Lat. ftmare, postulated by OFr. femer (Mod.Fr. fumer), OProv. and Catalon. femar, a Carolingian capitularyof 813 A. D. The emended Isidore passage allows us to cancelthe asterisk in Romance etymological dictionaries, and theRomance forms in turn add strength to the proposed emendation.

LEO SPITZER.THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY.

THE ATHENIAN SECRETARY PHAIDROS OFCHOLLEIDAI.

In 1926 Kirchner republished a small fragmentary inscriptionin an article entitled Ein Wiedergewonnenes Psephisma (Ath.Mitt., LI [1926], p. 157). This text had been intentionallyomitted from the Editio Minor as suspect, but the subsequentdiscovery of a squeeze of it has established its authenticity beyonddoubt. It was restored by Kirchner and dated in the year339/8 B. C. I wish to connect with it a text which I publishedin Ilesperia (VII [1938], p. 291), dated by the demotic of thesecretary in the year 339/8. His demotic is Cholleides and isto be restored in the text of Kirchner as follows:

339/8 B. C. STOIX. 33

['E7rt AvitL(LaX(3ov] apXovTO