AND BYZANTINE GREEK. 3 



In the first century before Christ the Boeotians had adopted the Attic dialect, as 

 inscriptions clearly show.'° 



§ -t- 



The Asiatic iEoLic," and some of the branches of the Doric,''^ continued to resist 

 the encroachments of the Attic as late as the second century of the Christian era. 

 And according to Pausanias, the Messenians of his time (third century) still retained 

 their Doric idiom. '^ 



§ 5. 



Of the language of Macedonia only a few isolated specimens have been preserved 

 by ancient authors." And there is no evidence that it was ever reduced to writing by 

 the natives. But as the leading families of that country were of Hellenic extraction, 

 it is to be presumed that they spoke a genuine Greek dialect, not unlike that of 

 Northern Greece, properly so called.'" This presumption is strengthened by the fact 

 that its case-endings and 2)ersonal endings are identical with those of the acknowledged 



" For instance, Inscr. 1570. 



" See tlie JSolic Inscriptioks 2176. 2181. 2187. 2189. 2190. 3524. 



'■^ See the Doric iNSCRiriioNS 2060. 1346. 1317. 1124. And compare Tatian. 26 Ei yap 'AttikI^(is ovk wv 



^AOrjvalos, Xe'ye fioi tov jxtj Aoypl^av tjju alriap. 



*^ PauS. 4, 27, 5 Meaarjmoi, 6e eXTOf Il(\oTvovuri<TOV rptaKoaia tTrj fioKiaTa );Ami/To, cV ols ovTf i6av fieri 8^Xoi wapa- 

 XiaravTcs ti rav oiKodev, ovre rr/v SiakeKTOV Tt]U AaplSa peTediSd^^drjcrav, dWa Kai (s T))ids fn to aKpifies avT^s UeXoTTov- 

 VTjcrlwv pdXicTTa e(p{i\a(T(TOV. 



Tlie following passages refer to the first century. Steab. 8, 1, 2 Sp^eSdi/ S' eVi xal vvv Kara Tro'Xeit aXXoi SWas 



fiiaXeyovrai, Sonovai Se Aapi^eiv Siravres 8ia Tr;!/ avp^dcrav eiriKpaTeiau : said of the Peloponnesians. SuETON. 



Tiber. 56 Zenonem quondam exquisitius sermocinantem cum interrogasset "Quaenam ilia tarn molesta dialecfos 

 esset," et ille respondisset, "Doridem," relegavit Ciuariam, existimans exprobratum sibi vetercm successum. 

 ([uod Dorice Rbodii loquantur. 



^■' StrAB. 7, frag. 2, p. 329 "On Kara BeairpaiTovs Kal MoXoTToij Tcts ypalas ne\las Kat tovs yipovras tt (Xlovs, 

 Kaddnfp Kot Trapa MoKeSoVi • TTcXaydvas ■yovK KoKoviriv (Kuvoi tovs Iv Ttpais, KaSa irapa. AaKoitri Kai Ma<Tcra\ia>- 



rais yipovTas. The adjective 5r e'X I o f seems to be radically the same as tt o X i o r , hoary, gray, wldte. Athen. 

 3, 33 'Hyi/irai'Spoy S ' Iv 'Ynopiifipacn tos Tpaxdas (ftrjcrl Koyxas vno pep MaKcdovaiv KaipvKovs Ka\fi(T6ai, vno 8e 

 'A6rjvaia>v k pe I ov s . Id. 10,83 MaKf&oiifs 8e tov dpiBpov Kolov irpocrayopdovai. 



'' Compare such names as 'AXe^avSpor, 'Apvvras, Kdpdvos, Adyos, NiKaviop, NtKoTcap, Uappevlaiv, TlfpSiKKas, IIto- 

 Xf/i.aio9. Also BiXiTTTTOf for ^iXiTTTTOf, BepeviKt] for ifpevUr). From the following passage it is inferred that a 

 native of Macedonia could not converse with an Illyrian without an interi)retcr. Polyb. 28, 8, 9 'Akoxktos 



To rifpo'fi'fl Ta napa tov TfpBiov ttoXiv c^ avTTjs enepne rov *A5aTov kol avv tovtco top V\avKl(iv eva rmp a<opaTO<l>v- 



XaKtoi/, Kai TpiTop TOP 'iXXiipiov, Std TO Trjv BidXeKTov flSepai Tr)v 'lX\vpida. But this does not neccs-sarily imply that 

 the Macedonian language was not a branch of the Illyrian. 



