[Used] with an accusative. Aorist subjunctive. But kerdanei= ["he/she/it will gain"] [sc. is also attested].
*kerda/nh|: ai)tiatikh=|. au)qupo/takton. *kerdanei= de/.
One of the many Suda entries which differentiate between two verb forms with very similar spelling. In the present instance they are probably both extracted from
Sophocles:
Oedipus at Colonus 72 and
Oedipus Tyrannus 889, respectively.
The entry also illustrates that
kerdai/nw in Attic, being a liquid verb, takes an apparently non-sigmatic aorist and future (
kerdan-). Later Greek used the sigmatic stem
kerdhs- instead, which presumably is why
kappa 1384 was introduced as a gloss.
Properly the adjective
au)qupo/taktos refers to the second aorist, but it can also refer to the first aorist, especially in the case of liquid verbs (LSJ s.v.); e.g.
delta 655,
pi 1031.
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