There is no ascertained instance of the mention of a people
called Grseci in any author earlier than this Aristotelian
treatise; for the allusions to Alkman and Sophokles prove
nothing to the point. > Nor can we explain how it came to
pass that the Hellenes were known to the Romans only
under the name of Graeci or Graii. But the name by which
a people is known to foreigners is often completely different
from its own domestic name, and we are not less at a loss
to assign the reason, how the Basena of Etruria came to
be known to the Romans by the name of Tuscans or
Etruscans.
> Homer, Iliad, xtL 234 ; Hesiod, lenes," may well be only a dia-

Fragm. U9, ed. Marktscheffel ; So- lectio rariety of ypStc, analogous

phokl. Traohin. 1174 ; Strabo, vii. p. to xkq.^ and 6pv(6) forxXelci SpviCi ^.
828. (Ahrens, De Dialecto Doricft, sect.
* Stephan. Bya. r. rpoixAc— 11, p. 91 ; and sect. 81, p. 242), per-

fpaixtc 84 icapi xy 'AXxftavi ai tibv haps declined like YOvaixtc

*EXX^va)v Htti-riptc, xal napA S090- The tenn used by Sophoklfis, if

xXei £v nol|i.caiv. 4<rcl 8i 9i \t.zxa- we may beliere Photius, was not

^Xaajjioc, Ji xf^a TpalS tiOtlac xXlai« TpoixiK;, but Taix6« (Photius, p. 480,

iaxi^, U t Bindorf, Fragment. Soph. 933 ;

The word Tpaixsc in Alkman, compare 466). Bustathins (p. 890)

meaning ''the mothers of the Hel- teems undecided between the two.
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CHAPTER IIL

MEMBERS OF THE HELLENIC AGGREGATE, SEPARATE-
LY TAKEN.— GREEKS NORTH OF PELOPONNESUS.
