The Greek Diminutive Suffix -loxo- -lOxtj-. 193 



Triteae in Phocis CB. 1730. 3 (173- 172 B. C). Avxiaxog : 6 Tv'j- 

 xo? ' wolf.' Boeotia CB. 379. 7, 713 a 17 ; Acarnania CB. 1379. 

 4 ; Aetolia CB. 1428 i 4 ; Epirus CIG. 1802 ; Cephaliania CB. 2566. 

 68 (227 or 226 B. C.) ; Delphi CB. 1743. 14, 1767. 8 (170-156 

 B. C.) ; Ambrysos CB. 2147. 9f. (147-100 B. C.) ; Amphissa CB. 

 1984. 12 (193-192 B. C.) ; Tarentum CB. 4626 ; Messene Paus. 

 4. 9. 5 ; Sicily CB. 5221. i. 2 (Tauromenium), 5244 c (Syracuse) ; 

 Athens Xen. Hell. i. 7. 13. Mviaxog : pc 'mouse.' Thasos CIG. 

 8518. 3. II ; a metic at Calymna CB. 3590. 17 ; also Anth. P. 12. 

 59 ff. Ns^qLo'/mq : veppo? ' fawn.' From an Illyrian island Mion. 

 3. 338. Ilavd^riQiaxoQ : -av&>r,p ' panther.' Sparta CIG. 1278. 16. 

 naQdaXiaxri : TuapBaXt? ' leopard.' Plautus Casina. lavQiaxog : (jocu- 

 po? 'lizard.' CIG. 4. 6868. Tavoiaxoc : ■zoa)^o<; 'bull.' Amphissa 

 CB. 2139. 8 (189-188 B. C.) ; Calymna CB. 3590. 62 (about 205 

 B. C.) ; Athens CIG. 126. 24 ; Cyzicus Plin. 33. 12. 55. 156. 

 TQayiGxoq : 'z^'xyj^ ' he-goat.' Tarentum Pol. 8. 29, 30 ; Crete 

 Plut. Arax. 29. (PQwiaxog : of-JvY) ' toad.' ^ Thessaly CB. 326. 

 3. 32 ; Boeotia CB. 830 ; Achaea Xen. An. 7. 2. i. 



B. The primitive is a plant name. The point of comparison 

 seems to be slenderness, neatness, and growth, Cf. Bechtel, op. 

 cit. 100. "Ai^tneXiaxri : aij.'Tslo? ' ^'ine.' Plant. Rud. 220 ff. Ka- 

 Xaf^iiaxog : xaXap.o? 'reed.' Pisidia CIG. 3. 4366 w 26. 



C. The primitive is the name of a thing. ^Aaisgioxog : aTTTip 

 'star.' Samos CB. 5704. 8 (third or second cent. B. C). El()i- 

 axog : tXpoc, ' wool,' ' Wooly.' Metapontium Iambi, v. Pythag. 36. 

 Mr^vCaxog : i}:r,vri 'moon.' Pisidia CIG. 3. 4367 A 7; also Plut. 2. 

 348 F. MvQioxog : ppov 'ointment.' Athens CIG. 276. 25; Sar- 

 matia ib. 2130. 28, 37 (time of emperor Tiberias). (I)oQf.uaxog' : 

 cpop[j.6? 'basket.' Epirus CB. 1359. 7. 



2. -i<jY.o- with Diminutive-hypocoristic Meaning. 



102. Since almost all of these names are permanent names, the 

 diminutive-hypocoristic origin of the category is on the whole 

 rather a matter of inference than of immediate observation. The 

 diminutive meaning is indeed certain for '^HQaxliaxog, which is 

 applied to the infant Heracles as title of a poem of Theocritus, 

 and hypocoristic meaning is probably found in ^arvQidxog as an 

 alternate for la-upo? in Mosch. 6. 4, though possibly with a de- 

 teriorative shade. Certainly hypocoristic is the Plautine Latnpadis- 



^ Color seems to be the point of comparison. 



2 Probably conceived of as ' carrier.' Cf. the German name ' Korb ' in 

 Freytag's Die Journalisten. 



