4 A GLOSSARY OF LATER 



Greek dialects ; unless it be assumed unwarrantably that the grammarians took liber- 

 ties with the words which they represent as Macedonian.'® 



Alexander, the son of Philip, was placed under the immediate tuition of Aristotle. 

 And as this philosopher used no other dialect than the Attic, his pupil became ac- 

 quainted with that dialect and its literature at an early age. Now the language of 

 Alexander must have been also the language of his personal attendants and officers 

 in general. The common soldiers of course spoke their native dialect ; '' and it is 

 natural to suppose that the military terms and expressions used in the army of 

 Alexander were of Macedonian origin.'' 



§ 6. 

 In Egypt and in the greater part of Western Asia the Greek was no native tongue. 

 Ptolemy the son of Lagus, one of Alexander's generals, and afterwards the first 

 Macedonian ruler of Egypt, introduced the Attic dialect into that country. And 

 although the native population spoke the language of their forefathers, the Greek 

 residents followed the example of the king and his officers and flatterers. Hence the 

 Greek inscriptions found in Egypt are written in Attic. '^ The other dialects were now 

 so little heard in Alexandria,*" that, whenever they made their appearance there, they 



"^ HeS. "Afiayva, poha. MaKe8d«9. Id. 'A^apKva, KOfia. ovTa> MnKeSover. Id. 'Ajiapv, oplyavov. MaKfSopta (sic). 

 Id. 'A^Xdet, (TTTfi'Se. Ma«8d«j. Id. 'A^povTes, 6(}>pvs. MaKeSoves (tllC plural (i/3povTf j Comes from 17 a^poCs, brow). 

 Id. "Abia-Kov, KVKfava. MaKtSoves. Id. \\Kpea, itats 6i]\eia. MaKfSovei. Id. FdpKav, pdjSSov. MaxeSdwr : the 

 same as the Latin virgam from virga. Id. rdSa, evrepa. MaKeSova: compare gut. Id. rorav, Iv. 

 MaKe8d«y. Id. ToiTras, koKoiovs. MaxeSdver. Id. 'iXe^, rj w/Jicof, ins VwpLaioi Koi MaxeSdwr : the same as the 

 Latin ilex. 



" Compare Plut. I, 592 B 'Eldls ao-jrao-d/jeKot MaKeSowo-Ti rfi <pav<j : .said of the soldiers of Eumenes. The 

 following passage may be taken for what it is worth. Quint. Curt. 6, 9, 34 Jamque rex intuens eum, 

 " Macedones," inquit, " de te judicaturi sunt : quaero an patrio sermone sis apud eos usurus." Tum Philotas, 

 " Praeter Macedonas," inquit, " plerique adsuut, quos facilius, quae dicam percepturos arbitror, si eadem 

 lingua fuero usus, qua tu egisti," etc. 



'' Compare Plut. I, G94 C 'AvaTrrjSrjaas ^'AXf^avSpor] avefioa MaKeBovitrTl (taXmi' roiis VTracrTrtords. 



" They are contained in the third volume of Boeckh's Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum. The inscription 

 4694 (B. C. 250 ± ) is one of the oldest, if not the very oldest, in the collection. 



'" Compare TlIEOCE. 15,87 nautratrfl', Sj Sv(TTavoi, dmiWTa kut/XXoktui Tpvyovei • (KKvaiirevvTi TT^aTftacrSoKrai 

 airavra : to which the Syi'acusan women indignantly reply, neXon-owao-to-Ti 'KaXtvpes • Aapiuhiv 8' i^ea-rt, Sokoi, 

 Tois i^apUea-a-iv, We speak the language of Peloponnesus ; the Dorians, I trow, have a right to speak Doric. 

 In respect to the word TrXai-ftdo-Su, to broaden, it refers to the prevalence of long A in the Doric dialect ; 

 which sound requires the mouth to be opened as much as possible. 



