Note 318 — Chapter XI · - THE ROMAN GENS.
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It is a curious fact that Cleisthenes of Argos changed the names of the three Dorian tribes of Sicyon, one to Hyatæ, signifying in the singular a boar; another to Oneatæ, signifying an ass, and a third to Choereatæ, signifying a little pig. They were intended as an insult to the Sicyonians; but they remained during his life-time, and for sixty years afterwards. Did the idea of these animal names come down through tradition?—See Grote’s History of Greece, iii, 33, 36.