64 AsTER HISTORY 
[here referring evidently to Pausanias’ ’dozs sotwva OvopdZ ovat xat 
ty moay taxtyy, See infra, under Heubanins:) ’The last three 
names at least had been names of Aster in ancient Greek. 
dazpohodiovdoy is cited by other dictionaries as follows: Le- 
grand, Mod. Gr. and Fr., 1882, ‘‘ dozpodovdovdv, marguerite paque- 
rette.”’—Jannizaris, “Eng. & Mod. Gr., as actually spoken,” N. Y. 
1895; “daisy, zazpodoviovde, colloquial only.’’—Contopoulos, 
Mod. Gr. Lex., Smyrna and Lon., 1868, ‘ dozpododdovdoyv = Aev- 
xdv0zpov, = daisy.” —Sibthorp ascribes dozpodovdoda as present 
name of Bellis perennis L. 
Its component, dazpos, white, is seen in Aspropotamo, mod. Gr. 
name of the river Achelous; Aspromonte, the white-crowned 
mountain, (often snow-capped, being nearly 7000 ft. high), in Cala- 
bria, Italy, where Calabrian Greeks have preserved a Greek dialect 
perhaps since they were Magna Grecian colonists ; Aspramonte, the =— 
mediaeval form of the word, name of an Italian epic (Milan, 1 516) 
celebrating a defeat of the Saracens by Charlemagne near the 
mountain. Asprocephalus, dezpozégadoc, is the mod. Gr. name of 
a common white flowered umbellifer of the genus Ammi. 
The other component, dovAovdov, a flower, is a word not apparent 
in ancient Greek but very prevalent in the modern ; not from the 
Turks, who say échitchek, a flower: not in Albanian or Slavic 
so far as consulted: claimed instead to be a native growth. The 
word exists in many forms; as shown in these citations : 
doviovea, in a Greek song which Pashley * heard 
Médpre+ pov pe cd doddovda, 
“Arpthe pe ta ‘dda, t 
2. e.—March brings me the daisy, 
April brings the rose. 
Form Ag/ovda occurs in a song quoted by Rodd, 270, 
“Oka. ca héhovda. tii 179s, T dvOy tod rapadstaoy, 
“All flowers that are found in earth and the blooms = Paradise 
The angels brought together to fashion this thy form 
Form “ dovjovtha is the right form ; sound the 6 like thin this. 
daxpokoviodiea, that is the true Greek for daisy and many other 
flowers.” —Aftica, 1901. 
<item ie iMac ste dee la Sg 
* Pashley, Travels in Crete ; Sea and London, 1837. 
t tov Mdpriov, Mod. Gr. for Mare 
{ tptavragvAdav is their more common name for rose.—Pashle y, Attica. 
