2 A GLOSSARY OF LATER 



the Pira?us ; but the Attic, as the language of the place, preponderated. On the other 

 hand, the Athenians did not hesitate to cull from each one of them whatever was 

 calculated to add to the strength and elegance of their own.^ 



§ 2. 



The Attic now began to force its peculiarities upon the other Greek dialects. Natu- 

 rally enough, the Ionic, that is, the dialect of the Asiatic lonians, was the first to feel 

 the influence of the idiom of the metropolis. Still it continued to be spoken and 

 written, in a modified form, as late as the close of the fourth century before Christ.'' 

 And it may be added here that, in the early part of the third century before Christ, 

 Sotades, Alexander of ^55tolia, and others, made it the vehicle of their impure . 

 thoughts.* 



In the last half of the same century, the Ionic dialect had been superseded by the 

 Attic." As to the lonians of the Cyclades, it cannot be shown that they ever spoke 

 a dialect materially diiferent from that of Attica. Be this as it may, all the inscrip- 

 tions belonging to this group of islands arc in Attic." 



§ 3. 

 From a Bccotic inscription, in which the name 'A\e ^ dvSpeia^ occurs, it is in- 

 ferred that the Bceotic dialect was spoken and -written at least as late as the time of 

 Alexander the Great. As to Kapx^^ov lo^^ found in another Bocotic inscription, it 

 only proves that that inscription could not have been written long after the destruction 

 of Carthage by the Romans. 



TTjv Ttokiv. IsOCR. Pan. 49 A Efinopwv yap iv pecra t^s 'EXXuSoj tov neipaia KanaKcvdaaTo, TocravTriv ?;(oj'5' Inep- 

 jSoXijv, U)<r6' a napa tS>v aK\(ov e.v nap' eKaarav xiXcttoV iari Aa/Sei)/, raid ' aTravra nap' avrijs p^Siov ilvai nopia'aa^dai. 



' XuN. Rep. Ath. 2, 8 "Eweira (jiaviiv tijv na<Tav cIkovovtcs i^eXi^avro tovto piv ix x^f, tovto St c'/c T^r. Kai 01 

 plv "EXXiji'es l&'ia paWov Koi (jiavrj Kal fiiaiViy Kai <Txr]paTi xpwvrai, 'ABrjva'ioi 8c KCKpapffr) e^ undvTau Twv 'EXKTjvav Ka\ 

 ^ap^apav. 



^ Inscr. 2691. c. d. e (B. C. 307) Mylasa. 2008 (B. C. 352) Ampliipolis. 2919 (B. C. 350±) Ionia? 

 2117. 2118. 2119 (B. C. 348-308) Phanagoria. 



^ AtiibN. 14, 13 'O 8e 'iaviKos Xdyor Ta SurdSou Ka\ to. npo tovtov 'Icacixa Ka\ovpcva noirjpara 'AXe^avdpov re tov 

 AiTcoXoC KoX UvptjTos TOV MiXijtTiou Kal 'AXe'lou Kai aWiov toiovtiou TroiTjTcov npo(^ipfTai. SuiD. SoiraSi;;, Kprjs, Mapa- 

 ve'iTrjs, SaipovicrdeXs tap^oypa(ji09. "Eypa'ijre ^XvoKas tjToi, KivaiSovs SiuXeKrw lavixfi. 



^ For Attic inscriptions fouud in Ionia, see Inscr. 3137. 2852. 3045. 30G7. 2855. 30G9. 



' For example, Inscr. 2352. 2374 (Parian). 



^ Inscr. 1564 'An 'AX^^avSpcias. There were several cities of tliis name founded by Alexander, or in 

 honor of him. 



^ Inscr. 15G5 Nci/Sai/ 'A^ioiPai Kapxa&onov. 



