Re: [tied] Re: Underlying Circumflex in Greek

Piotr wrote:
<<The most famous slip was made by the actor Hegelochus, who while acting the
part of Orestes (279) said <galê:n horô:> instead of <galé:n' horô:>
(probably due to his being a non-native speaker of Athenian RP), thus turning
the sentence "After the waves [storm] I see a calm again" into something like
"I see a weasel [or "ferret": <galê> from contracted <galée:>] again,
emerging from the waves". The comic poets ridiculed the poor beggar ad
nauseam, but in this simple way he became the best-known actor of ancient
Greece.>>

Great story. How does that come down to us?

Steve Long