[332] Acquaintance with the district round Smyrna is shown by the reference to the figure of 'Niobe' on Mt Sipylos in Il. XXIV 614 ff., although the identification of this figure is still disputed.
[333] On the problems connected with this name see Allen, Classical Quarterly, I 135 ff.
[334] Stephanus Byzant. s. v. Βολισσός.
[335] But not the corresponding change of an to ai (cf. τάς, πᾶσα).
[336] Cf. Wilamowitz-Möllendorff, op. cit. p. 52 f.
[337] The Ionic states of Clazomenai and Phocaia, to the west and north-west of Smyrna, seem to have been founded at a comparatively late period, though probably in the eighth century. Since the promontory of Ἄργεννον opposite Chios and to the south-west of Erythrai, has an Aeolic name, it is possible that the whole of the coast north of Teos was once occupied by Aeolians.
[338] Cf. Wilamowitz-Möllendorff, op. cit. p. 75 and (for a criticism) Cauer, Grundfragen2, p. 181 ff.
[339] The Shield of Heracles contains a number of clearly Aeolic forms (ἄμμες, ὔμμι, etc.).
[340] Cf. Fick, Die homerische Odyssee (1883), and Die homerische Ilias (1886), where the poems are reconstructed in their original Aeolic form.
[341] E.g. the two texts of Riddle XXXVI (both printed in Sweet's Oldest English Texts, p. 150 f.) and the texts of Caedmon's Hymn from the Moore MS. of Bede's Eccles. History (ib. p. 149) and the Anglo-Saxon version (IV 24). Reference may also be made to the Dream of the Cross and the extracts given in the inscription on the Ruthwell Cross. A portion of the Old Saxon Genesis is printed, together with the Anglo-Saxon version, in Cook and Tinker's Translations from Old English Poetry, p. 184 f.