190 Walter Petersen, 



lagonia, (l)7.apiT/.o; (Arist., Ael.) a river of the Budini in Scythia, 

 llapTiT/.ov (Ptol.) a city of the lazyges Metanastae, He/.o'JpiT/.a 

 (Procop.) a city in Moesia, also Ko'Jpicr/.a in Theophylactus, Ts-j- 

 picTxoi (Ptol.) a people in Dacia, Ti'pirrAX (Ptol.) a city in Moesia 

 Inferior, TtjiiT/.o; (Ptol.) a tributary of the Danube, lii^irr/.^/j (Ptol.) 

 a city in Dacia, TpoixaptT/.a (Ptol.) a city in lower Moesia. All of 

 these words were either taken from foreign languages including 

 the suffix, or they ended in such a way as to suggest the Gr. 

 -iTJto-, and were remodelled accordingly. 



96. Geographical names from Greece proper I have found only 

 two, in the first place in St. B. TpiTzoBiT/.o? xa\ Tpt-oBt-r/.or ym^-{\ 

 TTjC MsY^cpt^iog. 'Xsys'Tat xai Tpizo^iGv/r^. The reason for the name 

 is given Paus. i. 43. 8 Tpi7:o^a Bs apa[j.ovov cpspstv sx£>.£'j£v (sc. -f) 

 lluQ'ta Tov K6poi,[3ov) Ix tgu tspoLi, xal svQ'a av sxxso-fi ol (pspovTt 6 

 TptTcou?, £VTa[jQ>a 'AttoXXcovo? oixoSojxrjTai vaov xat auTov oixTjaai . . . xai 

 Tpi,7:oB('r/.ou? xo)ij.r,v IvTaUD'a otxTjO-ai. It is thus seen that the suffix 

 -i<T/Sj- had nothing to do with the fact that the word is a geograph- 

 ical name, but the whole word was transferred to the city by 

 association. Certainly of Greek origin was also 'iTCTvoupicrxo? (St. B.) 

 an island off Caria. Its primitive is l-K-rjupn; ' horse-tail,' and the 

 sutfix no doubt expressed similarity. 



97. From Macedonia and Thrace, however, I have found seven 

 geographical names in -ifyxo-^ partly Greek words without doubt, 

 partly native. The variety of the relations between primitive and 

 derivative indicates that the suffix had lost all content except the 

 feeling that it was a suffix for forming geographical names. Thus 

 we find two derivatives from adjective primitives : 'EXsuS^spioy.o; 

 (Theag. ap. St. B.) : IXsuS-spo? ' free,' a city in Macedonia, and 

 BspTiTxov (Strabo, Ptol.) a mountain of Macedonia: cpsp'^io-roc ' best,' 

 Greek cp corresponding to Macedonian (j.^ The meaning ' belong- 

 ing to ' apparently in the Macedonian place name Bpo[jioywO; or 

 Boppoyvoc (Thuc. 4. 103): (Bpoao? ' roaring,' ' that which is situated 

 near the roaring ' river at the outlet of a lake. Similarly AoptT/.oc 

 (Her. 7. 59) : Bopu, ' that which is situated near the trees,' a 

 Thracian plain with a fortified place, also 'EpyiT/.Tj (Aeschin. 3. 82): 

 spya 'fields,' ' that which is situated near the fields,' a place in 

 Thrace, and MupTtirxY) '^ (Aeschin. 3. 82) : [j.fjp-oc, ' that which is 

 situated near the myrtles,' also a place in Thrace. The suffix of 

 the last three words could also be interpreted as ' provided with.' 



^ Cf. Hirt, Die Indogermanen 149; Hoffmann, Die Makedonen 232. 

 ^ MvQziffxi} may be a deteriorative oi Mv^zrji'Of (Dem. 18. 27). In Aes- 

 chines MvqiLaxri would then have been influenced by the neighboring'/spy/orx/;. 



