Syncope is the loss of a medial, usually unaccented vowel, frequently associated with the effects of a stress accent. Although not common in Greek while the accent was one of pitch (Accentuation), there are isolated early examples, including: (i) the aorist stem of érkhomai ‘go, come’, elth- < eluth-, the latter already an archaism in Homer preserved only in the indicative ḗluthon and infinitive elutheîn; (ii) éstai ‘he will be’ < és(s)etai, again already in Ho…