Note 761 — Chapter VII · THE PYTHAGOREANS

The scanty fragments contain one Doric form, ἔχοντι (fr. 1), but Alkmaion calls himself Κροτωνιήτης, which is very significant; for Κροτωνιάτας is the Achaian as well as the Doric form. He did not, therefore, write a mixed dialect like that referred to in the last note. It seems safest to assume with Wachtler, De Alcmaeone Crotoniata, pp. 21 sqq., that he used Ionic.