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and dialect of the Dorians.* Now whenever a classical scholar goes 

 to Greece to find Dorians and lonians, it is ten to one but that he suc- 

 ceeds in finding Dorians and lonians. He selects such words and 

 phrases and facts as are agreeable to his hypothesis, and takes no 

 notice of those which contradict it. He lays much stress upon coinci- 

 dences, but disregards differences. He overlooks the fact that the gen- 

 uine Romaic contains infinitely more Doricisms than the jargon of 

 Tzakonia. If the modern Tzakoniots were the descendants of the 

 Doricized lonians of Herodotus, we should naturally expect to find a 

 great similarity between their language and that now used in Crete, 

 Melos, Thera, Cai-pathus, Rhodes, and other Doric islands; 



What was, then, the origin of this dialect? Before we attempt to 

 answer the question, it will be necessary to ascertain what foreign 

 races migrated to Greece after it became a Roman pi-ovince. 



Of all the barbarians that overran Greece previously to the ninth 

 century, the Slavs alone are represented by the Byzantine historians 

 as having permanently settled in Greece. They began to come in 

 contact with the Greeks in the early part of the sixth century. And 

 for nearly two hundred years after they crossed •the Danube they, 

 conjointly with other barbarians, did little else than devastate Illyria, 

 Thrace, and Greece.f Soon after the terrible plague which, in the 



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 8vo avTQ-)(Bova iovra Kara )(a>pav tSpurat vvv rfj koX to ndXai, o'lKeov, 'ApKd8es re 



Koi Kvvovpioi Ot 8e Kvvovpioi avrox^doves iOfTfs BoKeovai fj.ovvoi fivai 



Icoyer, eK8e8a>p[evvTai 8e vno re Apyeicov apxdp-evoi koi tov xpoi^ov, eovres 'Op- 

 reijTat Koi TrepioiKoi. Thuc. 5, 41 T^s Kvvovpias yrjs .... ffp.ovrai 8' aiiTjji' 

 AaKe8aip.6viot. Strab. 8, 6, 17 Kvvovpia, substantively. 



f Procopius, II, p. 397, 18 (A. D. 547) 'Ytto tovtov tov xRovov "EKKajSrivcov 

 (TTpdrevfia 8ia^dvT€s noTap-ov' laTpov 'iXXvpioiis anavras o-xpt Eni8ap,vLa>v f'8pa- 

 <rav dvfjKtcTTa i'pya. 449 (A. D. 550) "icrrpov Se iroTapov 8ia^dvT(s dp(fn Nai'- 

 a-bv fj\6ov, K. T. X. Mf;nander, p. 404, 15 (A. D. 57l)) "Ort Kepdi(op.ivris ttjs 

 'EXXoSos vtto '2K\a^Tjva>v, kt.\. Malalas, p. 490, 6 MtjvI fiapTico lv8t,KTi- 

 covos Z' €TTavi<TTr]<Tav ol Ovvvoi kol ol ^KXa/Sot rfj QpaKj], koI TTo\ep,r](TavTes ttoX- 

 Xovs dneKT'eivav, Ka'i Tivas eVpai'Sftitrai/. TheoI'HANES, p. 3G0 (A. D. 551 -[- 8) 

 Tw S' uvtS '(th eTTavfaTrjaav Ovvvoi Ka\ 'S.Kkd^oi, ttj QpaKrj TrKijOrj ttoXXo. 532 

 (A. D. 656 -j- 8) Ol 8e 2/cXn/3»'ol tovtco [ra 'A^8epaxpdv'\ TrpofrpvevTfs avv 

 aiiTw iv ^vpia KaTrjXdov ;^iXta8eff irevTf, Koi uKrjcrav els ttjv 'Anapeiav xa>pav iv 

 Kcopi] 2/ceuoKo/3oiiX(i>. 550 (A. D. 683 -|- 8) Touro) tS eVet 'lovaTipiavos aTreXe- 

 ^aTo e'/c TO)v p.€ToiKi(r6(VTu>v vtt avTov SKXajScoi/ koi faTpuTfvae p^iXtaSas A', /cat 



