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"With resarrl to the Slavs of Peloponnesus, Porphyrogenitus informs 

 us that those who occupied the slopes of the Pentadactylus (the me- 

 diaaval name of the Taj'getus) were called 'E^fpirat and MiT^rjyyoi.* 

 The word 'E^epirai means simply natives of^'E(ep6v, the meditcval name 

 of "EXoy; e^epo (neuter) in Slavic meaning lake, and in this case apply- 

 ing to the lake or swamp (eXoy) in the vicinity of the ancient "EXor. 

 As to MiXr/yyoi, it is analogous to the ancient word XeovTlvoi, that is, it 

 applies both to the place and to the people inhabiting it. In the 

 " Book of the Conquest of the Morea by the Franks," this place is 

 called MeXiyyoi or MeXtyoi, or in the singular MfXtyyov or MtXiyoct 

 The same book uses also ra S/cXa/St/ca, the Slavic settlements, and twi/ 

 "SKXa^civ 6 Spoyyos, the district of the Slavs, with reference to the Slavs 

 of Laeonia.+ The neuter to MeXtyoi/. occurs once in Phrantzes, an 

 author of the fifteenth century .§ These Slavs are represented as an 

 arrogant and refractory people. " They have no respect for mas- 

 ters," says the " Book of the Conquest of the Morea by the Franks." |I 



Tu>v Vcofxaiois TToKfpovvrav (duatv f^fTrni^evcrfv ovtco irois eVt/ifXcos' nepl to, toi- 

 avra 8iaii€ip(uos- ^lo Koi dfjifpipvovs Vcopaiovs eK rrji 7roXXd/ctj ano SKXa/Scoi/ 

 yevopifvrjs avTapcrias iTvo'irjcre, TToXXa? V7r iKfivwv o)(Xr]aei.s Kiu noXepovs rols 

 TToXai xpovois vTTopdvavTas- 



If ypaiKoxras, having Grecized, is not a corrupt readmg, it is formed from 

 ypaiKooi, to make one VpaiKos, after the analogy of adXa^oa, i'vom 26\d- 

 /3of. See adXa^oo), in the Glossary of Later and Byzantine Greek, and 

 compare fKdfbwpUvirrai. (from iKdapuvopai, a compound of e/c and Acopuvs) 

 in Herodotus (8, 73). 



* See above, p. 301. 



f Conquest, 1666 "On 6 (vyos t5>v MeXtyyo)!/ fvi yap hpoyyos ptyas, For 

 the ridge of Mclingi is a large district. 3205 Tcov apxr^yav ipr)vvcrav tcou Mf- 

 Xiyyoiv Tov dpoyyov, equivalent to ^Eprivvcrav tcou dp^rfyav tov bpoyyov to)v 

 MeXiyycoi/. 386 'Eac Tayv ^vyav Ta>v MtXiycoi' rfKdav to, Tre^iKu tovs- 16 71 

 "On d(j)6Tov eyeivfTOU tov Mi^idpa to KuaTpov Kal evi dndvoa els tov ^vyov tov 

 MfXtyyoO tov bpoyyov. 3262 Eis tov dpuyyov yap tov MeXiyoO opolu>s Ttjs 

 T^aKuivias. 



X Ibid. 1713. 3279. 



§ PURANTZES, p. 159 MeXi'yoi/. 



II Conquest, 1666 "On 6 ^uyor twv MeXtywi/ IVi yap Spoyyoy peyas, Kal 

 ex^i KXfia-ovpais fivvaTOLS, X'^P"'^ 7"V '^^'- pfydXais, Avdpdinovs dXa^oviKovs 

 K ov a-fjiovTai avdevTrjv. In this porui, yap is often introduced shn2ily to till 

 out tlie line. 



