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middle of the eighth century, visited Southern Italy, Sicily, and Greece, 

 the Slavs established themselves as settlers in the depopulated prov- 

 inces of continental and peninsular Greece. " Only those escaped 

 death who tied from the infected regions," says Saint Nicephorus the 

 Confessor.* According to Porphyrogenitus, all the rural districts 

 of Greece (17 x<"P«) were occupied by the Slavs and became barbarous, 

 when Constantine Copronymus the iconoclast was Emperor.t The 

 anonymous epitomizer of Strabo, who must have lived after the eighth 

 century, says, " And now the Slavic Scythians occupy nearly the 

 whole of Epirus, Hellas, Peloponnesus, and Macedonia." And again, 

 " But now the names Pisatae, and Cauoones, and Pylians are not 

 used ; for all these regions are inhabited by Scythians " ; J Scythians 



oirXicras avTovs fTrcovofiacfv avrovs \aov neptovcTLOv, «p;^oi'rd re avruii' 

 Ne^oviXoj/ Tovvofia- 



The K in 2(cXd^or, 2K\a^r)v6s, and the in 20Xaj3os, do not belong to the 

 radical portion of these forms : they were introduced by the Greeks in order 

 to bring them under the analogy of a-Kkrjpos, (xdevos or rather €-a6\6s. 



* TlIEOPHAXES, p. 651 (A. D. 738-)- 8) Tw b' avrco erei Xoifiadrjs ddvaros 

 dno '2iK(\ias Koi KaXa/3piar dp^d/xf j/os, oiov ti nvp iirivfuofjLevov eVi ttjv Movo^a- 

 aiav Koi 'EXXdSa /cat rets napaneififvas vfjo-ovs rjXdev 81 oXtjs riji lA tv8iKTicii>os ■ 

 652 'H 8e avTT] XoipuKfj voaos rov fiov^wfos dutBpafifv t^ Trerre/catSeKdrr; enivf- 

 pTjaei ivrfi ^aaiXlSi iroXei. NiCKrilOKUS CoNSTANTiNOrOLITANUS, p. 70, 11 

 Kad' ots Tonovs to (f)doponoi6v (nfC^vfTO nd6os, anav dvdpuiircov ytvos fTnvtfio- 

 fxevov Sie'Xve re koi aphr)v f^Ti(f>dvi^e. Aieaadr) 8 dv tis Beia navras ^ovX^aei, 

 ocTTis ws TToppwrdro) rovrav tS)v x.o}p(i)v dne8pa. EnfTfivero 8e rd rrjs (fidopds 

 fxaXicTTa nepl to Bufdirioi'. 



f POUPHYROGKXITUS, Them. p. 53 'EadXajiudr] 8e irdaa ff x^P°- '^"'' 7*" 

 yovf ^dpl^apos, ot( 6 XoipiKof ddvaros ndaav ijiocTKiTO ttjv oiKOvpevriv, oTrqviKa 

 KcovoTavTlvos 6 Tijs Konpias fTTuwfxos to. aKrjTTTpa ttjs tu)v Pcopalcov 8ie'infP 

 apx^J^S. QaTe Tivd t(ou (k IlfXoTrovvrjvov piya (ppovoiivra eVi rj/ avTov fvytvf la, 

 iva fif] X«ya) 8va-yfvfia, 'Ev(f)fipiov fKc'ivov tov ntpi^otjTov ypap-fiaTiKof aTiotrKtox^ai 

 fls avTov TovTOi TO 6po\ovp.(uov lap^elov, 



rapaa8o€i8fjS oyj/is ecr^ajSw/i/ijj. 



Hi' 8e ovTos NeKJjray o KrjStvo'as fn\ BvyaTpX 2o(f)ia XpiaT0(f)6pov tov vlbv tov 

 KoKoii Paifiavov Ka\ dyadoii ^aaiKeas. 



X Stkab. Chrestomath. Ill, p. 507 Kal viiv 8e ndaav "Unfipov Kal 'EXXdSa 

 (r)(^e86v Kal UeXoTTovvrfaov Ka\ ^laKtSovlav ^Kvdai '2ic\d[3oi vtpovTai. 510 Nvi> 

 8e ov8e bvopd fan Tliaurcov Ka\ KavKaucov Kal UvXiau • divavTa yap TavTa 2,Kvdai 

 vefiovTai. In the first of these passages, 2»cXd/3ot may be a gloss. 



