The Greek Diminutive Suffix -laxo- -loxrf. 201 



small amount of contact of their people with the rest of Greece, 

 a fact which accounts for their being rarely mentioned in Greek 

 literature, and for the consequent rarity of all kinds of names of 

 persons from those localities. I have also found no inscription al 

 evidence of names in -icjxo- from Crete and Achaea, but the occur- 

 rence in literature of one such name from Crete and another from 

 Achaea shows that their absence from inscriptions is accidental. 

 That the comparatively large amount of material from Crete should 

 not have yielded even one certain name in -toxo- is due to the 

 nature of the inscriptions — they are largely of legal contents and 

 do not contain long lists of proper names like e. g. the Thessalian 

 inscription CB. 345. 



no. It is self-evident that certain names in -tcr/wO-, like other 

 names also, were peculiar to or at least particularly popular in 

 certain localities. Thus ITapixsvioywO?, while common to many differ- 

 ent dialects, was particularly favored at Cos, where it occurs twenty 

 times in inscriptions. When moreover EucpavtiDco^ occurs in five 

 different Rhodian inscriptions, and once at Delphi (CB. 2581. 218), 

 but there the name of a Rhodian, we can be certain that it was a 

 purely Rhodian name. Similarly the fact that Msvi<7xy] is the 

 name of three different individuals at Cos, but is not found any- 

 where else, makes it probable that is was confined to Cos. Also 

 some of the azoCE, "kzyoixzycc were no doubt actually limited to the 

 places where they are found, but it is unsafe to draw conclusions 

 in the individual case. 



III. In the want, then, cf sufficient evidence to trace the his- 

 tory of the suffix in the dialects, I shall give a table of the words 

 actually found, making no distinction whether a person designated 

 as coming from a certain locality is mentioned in an inscription 

 from the same or a different locality or in literature — what is 

 important is m.erely the place from which the person's name came. 

 These names will merely be mentioned — for details consult the re- 

 ferences in the index — under the heading of the larger geograph- 

 ical units to which they belong, e. g. they are classified merely 

 as Boeotian instead of Theban, Thespian, etc. 



I. Arcado-Cyprian. A) Arcadian : <^01<taoc. B) Cyprian : 

 none. 



II. North-east Greek. A) Aeolian : none. B) Thessalian : Bot- 

 oxoc, To^yWicrm, Apo[ji(7XO(;, M£vi!cr/.o?, naf[j.£v{axo?, OiXictxg?, Opuvi- 

 (7X0$. C) Boeotian : Acp£>.i<r/to$, BotGxot;. 'Ep[j.atcrxo(;, Eu[3ot<7xo5, 

 Eucppovicrxo?, (dfZTcOdayio^, Taijioxo?, Aapoxo?, Auxi(7xo$, Mevt<TX0(;, 

 IlapfxsvicTxos, 'FutGXog, ^ikiGyiot;, Opovicrxo?, Opuvioxoi;. 



