ποτί

ποτί [ῐ], [dialect] Dor. for πρός, also used in [dialect] Ep. (as Il.1.426, al., Call.Del.210, al.), and rarely in Hp., esp.in phrase π. καί and

A also, i.e. especially, Art. 8,41, 46, 57, 69, without καί only in Fract.3 (but not in Hdt.), whether in or out of compos.; sts. in Trag. (lyr., exc. A.Eu.79) as A.Th.295, 346, Ag.725, Eu. l. c., S.Fr.245, E.Hipp.140 (and in compds., as ποτινίσσομαι, ποτιμάστιος, ποτιπίπτω, ποτιτρόπαιος). The elision of ι before a vowel is found once in Pi., viz. O.7.90 (elsewh. Pi. uses πρός before a vowel); but found in later [dialect] Dor., as Epich.170.7, IG42(1).121.20 (Epid., iv B. C.), Theoc.7.26, esp. in compds., v. ποθ-ίερος, πόθ-οδος, ποθ-ολκίς, πότ-αγε, ποτ-αγωγίς, ποτ-αείδω, ποτ-αμέλγω, ποτ-αυλέω, etc.; freq. apocop. before the Art., πὸτ τῶ, for πρὸς τοῦ, Theoc.4.50, 5.74;

πὸτ τῷ SIG247 iii 11

(Delph., iv B. C.);

πὸτ τόν IG5(1).1.18

, al. ([place name] Sparta); πὸτ τάν, for πρὸς τήν, Pi.Fr.122.5 (s. v. l.), Ar.Ach.732, etc.; πὸτ τό ib.751, Lys.117, etc.; πὸτ τώς Foed.[dialect] Lacon. ap. Th.5.77;

πὸτ τάς Ar.Lys.1264

(lyr.); πὸτ τά ib.1253 (lyr.);

πὸτ τούτοισι Epich.60

: less freq. in Verbs,

ποτθέμειν Id.170.10

;

ποτθέντες Tab.Heracl.2.30

; also πο-, as in

ποτόν Schwyzer 412

([place name] Elis),

ποτούς IG9(1).334.32

([dialect] Locr.); [full] πὸδ Δάφνη ib.7.518.5 (Tanagra, iii B. C.); [full] πὸκ

κατόπτας Schwyzer 485.10

(Thespiae, iii B. C.); [full] ποί in Argolic, esp. before dentals, IG42(1).102.63, al. (Epid., iv B. C.), sts. in other [dialect] Dor. dialects, as Delphic, ib. 22.1126.26, etc. Cf. προτί. (Cf. Avest. paiti 'to': the form ποί has prob. lost τ by dissimilation from a following dental.)