_ 12 E.g._ βίρροξ, _hirsutus_, _hirtus_; γάρκαν, _virgam_; ἴλεξ, _ilex_. The want of aspirates also forms a point of comparison. 13 Apollodorus, III. 8, 1. 14 Ap. Constant. Porph. de Themat. II. 2, p. 1453. Sturz Hellan. Fragm. p. 79. The passage of Hesiod is probably from the Ἠοῖαι, and there is no reason for supposing it spurious. The second verse should be read, υἶε δύω Μάγνητα Μάκεδνόν θ᾽ ἱππιοχάρμην. 15 Concerning the Macedonians, see Appendix I. 16 I allude here particularly to the ending of the genitive case of the second declension in οιο, which the grammarians quote as Thessalian. 17 See Appendix I. § 28. The ancient Macedonian coins represent precisely the same dress as the Thessalian. 18 Compare Θετταλικὰ πτερὰ in several grammarians, with Didymus in Ammonius in χλαμύς. More will be found on this subject in book IV. c. 2, § 4. 19 Compare Theocritus XII. 14, with Alcman quoted in the Scholia, and b. IV. c. 4, § 6. 20 Hesychius in δεσποίνας. See book IV. c. 4, § 4. 21 According to Ælian, V. H. III. 15, the women of Illyria were present at banquets and wine-parties; Herod. V. 18, says the contrary of the Macedonians. 22 Strabo, V. p. 221. 23 See particularly Stephan. Byzant. in Ἔφυρα. 24 Alexander Ephesius ap. Stephan. Byz. in Χαονία. 25 Niebuhr’s Roman History, vol. i. p. 46, ed. 2, English tr. Hence many names were the same in both countries; as, _e.g._, Pandosia (Justin, XII. 2), Acheron, Acherontia, &c. 26 Herodotus also says, that the Ionians and Æolians had formerly been Pelasgians, having, as it were, swallowed up that nation; he must however assume that they changed their language (μετέμαθον τὴν γλῶσσαν), as the language of the Pelasgi who dwelt near Creston and Placia (which was probably nothing more than an ancient dialect) appeared to him barbarous. Æschylus (Suppl. 911) opposes them, as genuine Greeks, to the καρβανοι, or barbarians. 27 Thus, _e.g._, the Amphilochians and Chaonians, according to Thucyd. II. 68, 80. The following ancient Greek forms occur in the Epirot dialect: γδοῦποσ for δοῦποσ (Maittaire, p. 141), γνώσκω, nosco, Orion p. 42, 17. Ἄσπετος Achilles, Plut. Pyrrh. 1. (α-ἕπομαι.)—The account in Strabo VII. p. 327, of two languages being spoken in some districts, doubtless refers to the coexistence of Grecian and Illyrian dialects. 28 Polyb. XVII. 5, 8. _ 29 Orchomenos_, p. 253. 30 According to Hesychius, Βρέκυς (Βερεκύντιος) is the same word as Βρύξ. _Bruges_ was also used by Ennius, and, as it appears, by Marcus Brutus (Plutarch, Brut. 45). 31 See the Chrestomathia of Proclus. _Briges_, or _Phryges_, in the region of Dyrrachium, Appian, Bell. Civ. II., 39. 32 Creuzer Fragment. Histor. p. 171. Strabo XIV. p. 680. Compare Conon in Photius I.