Topic · from the English index · as printed

Movable consonants

ELISION

Except ἐστί is, forms admitting movable ν (134 a) do not suffer elision in prose. (But some cases of ε in the perfect occur in Demosthenes.)

§§134–137MOVABLE CONSONANTS

REMARKS ON THE CONTRACTED VERBS

Movable ν is never (in Attic) added to the contracted 3 sing. imperfect (ἐποίει, not ἐποίειν).