[411] Αἰολίδης occurs occasionally as a patronymic for individuals. The 'keeper of the winds' seems to have no connection with these characters.
[412] In the Homeric poems it is in the case of minor characters among the Trojans and their allies that names of this type are most common. In this case the use of such names may be accounted for with considerable probability under the head of fiction (cf. p. [300], note).
[413] Murray, Rise of the Greek Epic, p. 197 (from Bethe, N. Jahrb., VII 672).
[414] Cf. Crusius, S.-B. d. k. bayer. Akad., 1905, p. 774 f.
[415] Cf. Brückner, Troja und Ilion, p. 557 ff.
[416] Cf. Crusius, op. cit., p. 761 ff.
[417] As a matter of fact the name Melanippos is borne by three Trojans and one Achaean in the Iliad. Nothing is stated regarding the home of the Achaean. The name Orestes is borne by one Trojan and one Achaean, besides the son of Agamemnon.
[418] I have dealt with only one of the groups of names treated by Prof. Bethe; but it is the one which he has discussed most fully. A second (Laconian) group is treated by him on p. 672 f. On this it will be sufficient here to refer to Crusius, op. cit., p. 771 ff., where it is pointed out that the chief argument rests apparently on a mistranslation.
[419] Cf. Neue Jahrb., VII 662-9; XIII 2 ff.
[420] Grundfragen der Homerkritik2, p. 223 ff.