*kekaqi/sqai: e)k tou= kaqi/zw.
The perfect middle/passive of
kaqi/zw is attested in a few Byzantine authors, just before Suda was compiled: Methodius I (C9) uses
kekaqi/sqai in the
Vita of St Euthymius of Sardis (37.777, 37.782, as well as
keka/qiso 14.279), and the
Vita of SS David, Symeon and George (also C9) uses
e)keka/qisto (14.29).
Nevertheless, it is more likely the lexicographer is copying the instance of
kekaqi/sqai in Herodian's
Partitions, where he points out that the perfect middle-passive infinitive of
kaqi/zw (if there is one) is spelled with iota, while the infinitive
kaqh=sqai (perfect with present sense, formed from
ka/qhmai) is spelled with eta (see
kappa 83,
kappa 88). The Suda's gloss makes explicit what Herodian leaves implicit: the iota in
kaqi/zw comes from
i(/zw.
For
kaqi/zw, see also
kappa 98.
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