170 JValter Petersen, 



want of success. As time went on and the deteriorative element 

 completely displaced the notion of similarity, we find e. g. avO-pco- 

 -i(7xoc ' contemptible fellow ' without the notion that avO-pw-o; 

 would really be inapplicable. 



51. Collection of Examples. d\Oo(tmiaxoc : avu-po);:oc, ' a con- 

 temptible or insignificant man.' Ar. Pax 751 O'jx iBioJTa; dcvOpoj- 

 TCioxouc x(o[j,(oBa>v rJShz yuvoixa;, 'Aaa HpaxXsouc opy^v tiv svwv ToTo't 

 [j.£Y'''7-ot? £-£/£ip£i. Plato Resp. 6. 495 C a}.>.oi av^ptoTTiT/.o!. . . . |y. Toiv 

 T£/vcov £x:rrjBcocriv £i? vr;/ <pi}.oo-ooiav. id. Phaedr. 243 A o-£[j.vov£G-&-ai 

 (o; Ti ovTE, £? apa avO-pojTTicrxoui; Ttva? I'faTca— r^cravTE £'jBoxi[X7i7£Tov sv 

 a-jToTr. ^ovy.oXiaxog : j3o!Jx6>.oc, title of Theocr. 20, referring to a 

 vain-glorious herdsman, xadiaxog : xaBoc, ' hateful wine-jar,' see 

 § 48. ^layeiQiaxoz : [j.aY£ipo? 'cook.' Ath. 292 E a}.}.oc (roowrr,? 

 ij-aYEipiT/oc. f^isigaxlaxog : [jxipaxiov ^ ' youth.' Alex. frg. 3. 467 

 (l. 8) X£!,ij.o)v 6 [j,£tpaxicrxo$ so-ti toTs (^i7,oi^. veaviaxoq : vEavia? 

 ' young man.' Ar. Av. 1362 (ironically hypocoristic) Zo\ B' w 

 v£avt(r/.', ou xaxw? u'o^iT.TOij.at,. . . . cr-j yap Tov ij.£v Tzcc-zipa [j.yi vJ7:t£. 

 Xen. An. 2. i. 13 (ironical) oO.ly. '^iXoaooo) [X£V lotxa?, w v£avi(7X£, xai 

 >.sY£tc oux a/aptTa. id. Apol. 31 6 vEavi^xoi; yjctS-ei? otvw oSte vuxto^ 

 OUTS Tjij-fpac ^za-JsTo ztv&)v. id. Cyr. 5. 2. 27 o5 cu tou vsavtovwou 

 -o'JTO'j . . . 'j7:£pTjCpavtav TzoWry Tiva toO Tpoxou xaTfjyopst? ; Aeschin, i. 



171 v£aviGy.oc Sb opcpavoi; Y][j.t|j.avY]? Bi£/£ipi^£ ty]v ouo-iav. mvaxiaxog : 

 ■jzi^u^, ' filthy trencher or plate.' Ar. Plut. 813 -zryjq Bs xtvaxi'Txo'j; 

 TOu$ craTCpou? To^j^ ?/^0'U7]pou? apyupoU? 7:ap£(j&' 6pav. id. frg. 2. 1160 

 (7) rTivaxiT/.ov a-'jpov i/Q<UT(p6v. ^i^roo/crxoc : pr^Twp ' orator,' an 

 ironical address in Gell. 17. 20. 4 ' heus,' inquit, ' tu, rhetorisce.' 

 (JavdaXiaxov : G-avBa)*.ov, ' worthless sandal,' because torn. Ar. Ran. 

 405 -b yap xaT£oyio-oi \xzv IrX jDmzi Koctt £!jT£}.£ia toBe to TavBa- 

 }iGy.ov Kai to paxoc. airdov/ffxrj ' cheap or worthless tCvBcov.' Plut. 



i. 340 D £V £UT£X£~ G-lvB0Vl(7X-ri. 



2. The Deteriorative represents an Object as belonging 

 to a Despicable Class, or Refers to the Class itself. 



52. This was possible just as soon as the original notion ' like 

 but not quite the same ' had completely given way to the notion 

 of contempt. 2 When e. g. was formed avS-pwxtoTto? ' contemptible 



^ If fxeiQaxiaxos goes back to pre-literary times, when f^eTQ«^ may have 

 designated boys as well as girls, the latter might have been the primitive. 

 Cf. Gr. Dims. no. 



* For those deterioratives which developed from diminutive or hypo- 

 coristic meaning (§ 47) this was possible from the beginning. 



