6. "The Scoundrel's Dictionary, 1754."
CRANMORE.
Modern Greek Names of Places (Vol. iv., pp. 470.; Vol. v., p. 14.).
—With the utmost deference to so high an authority, on such a subject, as SIR EMERSON TENNENT, I must deny that Cos, Athens, or Constantinople have been called by the Greeks, Stanco, Satines, or Stamboul.
These corruptions have been made by Turks, Venetians, and Englishmen; and in speaking to barbarians the Greek uses barbarous terms to make himself intelligible; but in speaking to another Greek, and in writing, Athens is Athens, Cos is Cos, and Constantinople is ἡ πόλις.
Very few corruptions of names of places have taken place amongst the Greeks; while every island, peak, and every headland in the Ægean cries out against Venetian barbarism.
Patræ is Patras in the mouths of Englishmen, and Patrasso with Italians: the Greeks call it Πατραι, and generally write it Παλαιαι Πατραι.
Corcyra has lost her name, but has received a correct Greek name, Οἱ Κόρυφοι—the peaks—whether of the citadel or of Mount San Salvador. This has become Corfu. Ithaca has lost her name and is now Theaki.
A Greek does not know what place you mean.
I should be obliged if any correspondent can tell me whether Paxo is mentioned by any classical author. It has a plural termination: Οι Παξοι εις τοὺς Παξους.