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 AMPHIKTYONIC CONVOCATION. 269 what authority Aristotle made bis statement, we do not know ; but the general feeling of the Greeks was different, connecting Deukalion, Hellen, and the Hellenes, primarily and specially with the territory called Achaia Phthiotis, between Mount Othrys and CEta. Jsor can we either affirm or deny his asser- tion that the people in the neighborhood of Dodona were called Graeci before they were called Hellenes. There is no ascertained instance of the mention of a people called Grasci, in any author earlier than this Aristotelian treatise ; for the allusions to Alkman and Sophokles prove nothing to the point. 1 Nor can we explain how it came to pass that the Hellenes were known to the Romans only under the name of Grasci, 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 Rasena of Etruria came to be known to the Romans by the name of Tuscans, or Etruscans. CHAPTER III. MEMBERS OF THE HELLENIC AGGREGATE, SEPARATELY TAKEN. -GREEKS NORTH OF PELOPONNESUS. HAVING in the preceding chapter touched upon the Greeks in their aggregate capacity, I now come to describe sepa- rately the portions of which this aggregate consisted, as they present themselves at the first discernible period of history. 1 Stephan. Byz. v. Tpaitcoc. TpatKef ds irapu. ru 'A^K/zuw al ruv vuv /ujjrepec, Kal irapa 'Zo(j>oKAfL kv Tloipeffiv. iari 6e TI fieTairhaffpof, rj TTJS Tpai!; ev&eiaz KAiaif kariv. The word Tpatnec, in Alkman, meaning " the mothers of the Hellenes," may well be only a dialectic variety of ypdff, analogous to tfAgf and opvi^, for K^slf, opvif, etc. (Ahrens, De Dialecto Doricft, sect. 11, p. 91 ; and sect. 31, p. 242), perhaps declined like ywalKCf. The term used by Sophokles, if we may believe Photius, was not TpaiKor^ but 'Pantos (Photius, p. 480, 15; Dindorf, Fragment Soph. 933: compare 455' Eustathius (p. 890) seems undecided between the two