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be called 'little king' if son of a king,i or 'little father,' 'little 

 boy,' 'little man,' etc. "JvdQtayiog : avT^p 'man.' Telos CB. 3488c 

 4 ; Sicily CB. 5219. i. 46, 203, 246 (Tauromenium) ; Athens CIG. 

 168 b ; Naxos Ath. 78 C ; a Macedonian king Pans. 7. 13. i. 

 ''Avd^QMniay.og : avQ^pcoTio? ' man '. Tarentum CB. 4616. 2. 10 (end 

 of fourth or third cent. B. C). Baai'/JaYMg : (itxads-j? ' king.' Suid. ; 

 Anth. P. I. II (Christian period), '//^w/o'xog : f,po)? 'hero.' Attica 



A. Rangab. 2. n. 1384. Koqioymq : xopoc ' youth.' Skepsis Plato 

 Ep. 6. 323 A ; also Strabo 608 ; Alciphr. 3. 33. Mateqla-m : [j.aT-/]p 

 'mother.' CIG. 4. 6913. 2f. Navlaxog : ^^voc, 'fellow.' On Samian 

 coins Mion. 3. 284. natdi(ry.rj 'Girlie': vj xaT?. Attica CIA. 2. 3. 

 4051. Uanlaxog : ^axa? 'papa.' Schol.Dionys.de myst. theol. i. i. 

 JlatQiaYMg : tm^t^^ ' father.' On a coin from Priene Mion. 3. 187. 

 (PiXioxog : cpi}.o? ' friend.' Thessaly CB. 345. 81 (about 214 B. C.) ; 

 Boeotia CB. 2563. 51 (272 B. C.) ; Thelpusa in Arcadia CB. 2628. 

 I (230-220 B. C.) ; Phthiotis CB. 1461. i. 60; Delphi CB. 1963. 

 10 (182 B. C.) ; Corcyra Ath. 198 B, C ; Aegina Diog. Laert. 6. 

 2. n. 7, 10, 12 ; Cos CB. 3706. 7. 14, 8. 66, 69 (end of third cent. 



B. C.) ; Rhodes CB. 3791. 490 (ab. 70 B. C), 306. 2 ; Carpathus 

 CB. 4322 a 14, 20 (beginning of second cent. B. C.) ; Tarentum 

 CB. 4626 (300-272 B. C.) ; Messene CB. 2566. 12 (227 or 226 

 B. C.) ; Cyrene CB. 4846. 4 (68 or 73 A. D.) ; Sicily CB. 5219.^ 

 I. 58 (Tauromenium), 5244 a (Syracuse) ; an Athenian poet of the 

 Middle Comedy ap. Suid. ; Eretria CB. 5312. 23 (308-304 B. C.) ; 

 Thasos CB. 5478b gi., 5484. 10; Tenos CB. 5492. 58; Erythrae 

 CB. 5692 a 16 (soon after 278 B. C.) ; Miletus Hes. s. v. ; Abydus 

 Xen. Hell. 7. i. 27. 



C. The primitive is an ethnicon. Some of these were doubtless 

 nicknames given in later life, e. g. a slave from Syria might be 

 called HDpioxo? in preference to his real name, which would be 

 unfamihar to Greek ears. Ev^otayiog : Euposu? ' Euboean.' Chae- 

 ronea IGS. i. 3391. 6 [j-st' Eu(3oi(7)iov ap/st. 0ETTaXia-/.og : ©sTiraXos 

 ' Thessalian.' Thebes Arist. Rhet. 2. 23. 1398 b 4. Evqiayux : lupoc 

 ' Syrian.' Thessalonica CIG. 2. 1982. ZvQiaY.og : Hupo? ' Syrian.' 

 Megar. Chersonesus CB. 3086. 11 (third or second cent. B. C.) ; 

 a slave name Anaxipp. frg. 4. 466 and Ter. Eun. 772. Another 

 Syrian Tzetzes Hist. 9. 503, 505. <pQaYyil(jy.og : ^pdyaoc, ' Frank.' 

 Anon, de fig. in Rhet. Graec. ed. Spengel t. 3 p. 172. 



D. The primitive is itself a permanent personal name, e. g. 'Acps- 

 \iaY.oc, ' a little Apheles.' AlaxvUaxog : Alayoloi;. Corcyra CIG. 

 1852. 'AUaxog : ^AXzoc,. Hes. "AQjeiiiaxog : 'ApTSfxa? 'ApTejxwv. Sic- 



1 Possibly with the notion of .similarity: " a royal boy." 



