Note 351 — Chapter X · THE HOMERIC POEMS.

The same remark is true of heroic names occurring in Doric inscriptions, e.g. Ϝεκαβα, Κεβριονας, Δαιφοβος on a vase (Cauer, op. cit. 78) found near Caere. So also with the heroic names used by Pindar and other non-Ionic poets—not to mention the Latin forms. Yet these poets use the Ionic forms of foreign names, such as Μῆδοι (Cypr. Ma-to-i), which had come to them presumably through Ionic channels. On the other hand we find in inscriptions on Chalcidian vases more purely Ionic forms, e.g. Αινεες (ib. 545), than those preserved in our text. These seem to count against any place except Athens as the home of the final form of the 'epic dialect.'