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I. Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

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References

1 The opening words of his preface to Über Yasna 31.

2 3 Conf. 45 f.

3 Given in the Preface to Vol. I.

4 Cf. ERPP 17-27 for the importance of meter as a witness to the antiquity of the Gs.

5 Cf. Key to Abbreviations, fin.

6 I have taken no account of the metrical alterations suggested by Bthl. in AF 2. 1-31. Most of them affect only the pronunciation or the placing of the caesura, and Bthl. abandoned many of them in the AiW.

7 Cf. R.G. Kent, JAOS 39. 331-2; ERPP 25-7.

8 Cf. Jn. GIP 2, 622, giving 660-583 B. C.; and ZZA 52, which has the support of Bthl. and C. D. Buck, for the 10th century B. C.

9 I.e., 1323 A. D., GIP 2.84.

10 GIP 2.51 med.

11 EZ 293.

12 Mn.'s use here of the LAv. term is inconsistent with the principle laid down. The expression am spnt does not occur in the Gs.