194 JVancr Petersen, 



cus, which is once used for Lampadio Cist. 544 Audire vocem visa 

 sum ante aedis modo Mei Lampadisci servi. Still better Olympic 

 is once affectionately addressed as Olympiscus in Plaut. Cas. 739 

 obsecro te, Olympisce mi, mi pater, mi patrone. We may further 

 surmise that those permanent names in -t'Txo- which were derived 

 from other names were diminutives, the child being originally 

 thought of as ' little father ' or little mother.' If the father's name 

 was Alcr/uXoi, what was more appropriate than to call the infant 

 son ' little Aeschylus ' or AW/uHrrKoc ? An example of the son's 

 name as a diminutive of the father's is Herond. 2. 76 /co tAz-oc, 

 ^>Iv [J.01 -inuiJ-^p^c yd) Tzcc-r^p l!t'7U[j.[if(i7xo?. In the same way Msvi- 

 oxoc, was son of Msvcov in the Thessalian inscription CB. 345. 56, 

 and the Cephallanian Auy.icr/.o^ was son of Auxo? CB. 2564. 61. 

 And again when we read Ascov A£ovTi(r/coL» in an inscription from 

 Acarnania CB. 1389. 15, we may wonder whether according to the 

 custom of naming a baby after its grandfather the father of Leon- 

 tiscus was not in turn named Leon, whence the son's name ' little 

 Leon.' The fact that a name thus given clings to the person after 

 he grows to the same size as his father accounts for the fading 

 of the diminutive notion. Hypocorism, however, could be con- 

 nected with the suffix at any time even though the name was a 

 permanent one. 



103. The primitive of a diminutive designating a person must 

 of course in every case itself designate a person, but we may sub- 

 divide according to whether the primitive designates the person 

 as having a certain occupation or profession, or is a personal 

 appellative of a different kind, or an ethnicon, or is itself a per- 

 manent personal name. 



A. The primitive designates a man as belonging to an occupation 

 or profession. If the father e. g. was a fuller, the baby could be 

 named ' little fuller.' rvatfia-Kog : yvacps-jc ' fuller.' Insc. jQu^ia-MQ : 

 Bpo^.£tJC ' runner.' Thessaly CB. 326. 3. 15 ; Attica Ephem. Arch. 

 2. n. 1898. K. "lai'ia-A.og : *iav£yG 'physician ' (cf. taivco ^ ' to heal.).' 

 Son of Asclepius Schol. Ar. Plut. 701 ; king of Sicyon Paus. 2. 

 6. 6. Kv^SQvia-KOQ" : xu|3£pvr^TT,c 'pilot.' A Lycian Herod. 7. 98. 



B. The primitive is a personal appellative of a different kind. 

 The reasons for the diminutives are self-explanatory : a child could 



1 Certainly not by syncope from ' Iao.vi<sxog, as Janson, op. cit. 6. The 

 son of Asclepius has to do with healing. 



2 The form is puzzUng. Either Kv^equiaxog is to be compared with TQifxiaxog 

 (§ 12) instead of *r()f (Uitiffxof, or the primitive is really xv/Jc^j/o? (Greg. Naz.), 

 whose late appearance would then be accidental. 



