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And from Porphyrogenitus we learn that the 'E^fpTrai and the MiXTjyyoi 

 were the last to submit to the government at Constantinople.* 



According to an anonymous writer of the fourteenth century, Pelo- 

 ponnesus was at that time inhabited by a mongrel population, the prin- 

 cipal elements being Lacedagmonians, Italians, Peloponnesians, Slavs, 

 Illyrians, Egyptians, and Jews.f By LacedfBmonians and Peloponne- 

 sians he must mean the modern Maviares and Mcopatres. His 

 Illyrians are our 'Ap^avlres. As to his AlyvnTioi, they are most 

 probably the Tv(f)Tot, Gypsies, of the present day, who are currently 

 believed in the Levant to be of Egyptian origin, perhaps because the 

 Gypsies who first appeared among the Greeks came from Egypt. It 

 is possible, however, that this writer's Egyptians may be the descend- 

 ants of the Saracens and the Africans, who, conjointly with the Slavs, 

 were plundering the Greeks of Peloponnesus in the early part of the 

 ninth century, as Porphyrogenitus informs us. J 



It is sometimes asked, what became of the language of the Grecized 

 Slavs ? If the modern Greeks are Slavs, why is not Greece now 

 another Servia or Bosnia ? For although the Slavic language has 

 left behind it a number of names of places,§ and tinctured the Greek 



* See above, p. 301. 



I BoissOXADe's Anecd. Gr.EC. Ill, p. 174 'El/ Ile\oTrovv^a-m, ms Koi 

 avTos oi8as, ^elve, oikcT dvafxi^ yevr] TToKirevofieva ira/j-noWa, hv tov X^P'-' 

 crfi6i> fvpelv vvv oi/Ve padiov ovre Karenflyov. A be rais UKoais irepirjxel.Tai., as 

 naai 8rj\a Koi Kopv(f)ala, rvyxdvei ravra • AaKfbaifxoves, 'IraXoi, neXonovvrjaioi, 

 ^6\aj3lvoi, 'tKXvpioi, AiyvrrTioi Koi lovbaloi, ovk oXiyoi 8e fieaov tovtcov koi 

 {iTTo^okipaioL ' Spoil to. TOLaiira inapidpovpeva inra. A poor imitation of He- 

 KODOTUS, 8, 73 OiKeei 8e Trjv UeXoTroi^vrjaov eBvea enTa. 



The Md^apis of this unknown author seems to be an imaginary person, 

 suggested perhaps by the Er {"Up) of Plat. Rep. 10, p. 614 B 'aXX' ov 

 p.fVToi (Toi, rju 6' eyo), 'AXkivov ye dirdkoyov epS), dXX dX-Kipov pev dvbpos, 'Hpbs 

 Toil AppevLov, TO yivos Jlap(pv\ov • os wore ev no\(p(o TeXevTrjaas, dvaipedevToiv 

 deKUTaicov Ta>v veKpQiv rjbrj 8te(pdapp€va>v, vyirjs pev dvrjpedr], k. t. X. 



t See above, p. 301. 



§ Examples: Tovpa, as, rj, GJiiira, the ancient "Op^us ; from the Slavic 

 yopci, mountain (opos). TopiT^a, as, 17, Gkoritza, the site of the ancient 

 ArjprjTpLas; from yopirfa, the diminutive of the Slavic yopd, because it is 

 a little mountain, as compared with Pelion. Zayopd, as, fj, Zaghord, a town 

 behind Pelion with respect to Volo ; from the Slavic fa, behind, back, and 

 yopd. Zayopi, lov, to, Zafjhdri, a town in Epirus; from the Russian (a- 



