But,  though  the  darkening  of  o  to  v  is  found  in  Boeotian  (Aiov<t-
Kovpi8ao,  Qi-^vTinv  and  in  AiuSorco  Nu'/ieiVeo?),  this  phenomenon  is  not
exclusively  Boeotian,  as  it  is  not  even  chiefly  Aeolic.  As  eu8os
occurs  in  Delphic,  the  v  of  e^Si;?  may  have  been  generated  on
Delphian  soil ;  and  Apvfinla,  Apv^ia,  Apv/jios  are  different  names  of  a
city  of  Phocis.  Apvpuls  need,  therefore,  not  contain  the  base  8pofi.
Urj\(KXea,  W.  F.  54,  2,  is  perhaps  a  Boeotism  for  TtjXeKXia  ;  cf  Boeot.
UeiXeTTpoTiSas  (but  alsO  Tei\ecj)i'iv(ios)  and  Lesbic  miXvL  =:  TrjXno-e.
Locnan  fVKaXflp.(vof,  Del[)hic  Trote/pei/o?,  acfiaipeifievos  are  instances
of  the  -fxi  inflection  of  -ew  verbs  that  con''tintly  recurs  in  the  dialects
of  Aeolic  coloring.-  It  is  improbabpl'  that  tPKaXd/xepos  should,
through  Boeotian  influence,  have  forced  its  way  into  the  dialect  of
the  Ozolian  from  that  of  the  Opuntlan  Locrians,  who  were  settlers
in  Naupactus.  The  -pi  form  is  to  be  ascribed  either  to  the  influ-
ence of  Aeolic  settlers  (cf.  Terpander  and  the  Lesbic  citharoedi,

rri  Ma/A(h).  In  another  passage  Strabo  calls  the  Aeolians  and  Dorians
ofioyevel^.
'  Connection  with  Thessaly  was,  perhaps,  not  so  intimate.  The  sacred
processions  to  Olympus  may,  however,  be  adduced.
-  Hom.  (lAiTrjuevoi:,  old  Lesbic  Tvoif/usmg,  later  Lesbic  -oeifiEvng,  Boeot.  (pi/.eiui
(gramm.),  Thcss.  yvfii-asiapxii'rog,  Arcad.  ddiKyjusvoc,  Elean  Ka6a/.iju£voq.
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Ahrens,  Gott.  Phil.  Versamml.,  1852,  p.  77),  or,  better,  to  a  devel-
opment of  the  Doric  of  these  cantons  parallel  to  that  of  the
Aeolic  dialect.  As  these  forms  are  undoubtedly  of  later  origin,
they  offer  no  proof  of  an  Aeolo-Doric  period.
