The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s4.147

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¹ III, 16, 19, ’Αντιγόνεια ἡ καὶ Μαντίνεια; IV, 4, 4, Βερενίκη ἡ καὶ ’Εσπερίδες, ’Αρσινόη ἡ καὶ Τεύχειρα; III, 11, 12, Φιλιππόπολις ἡ καὶ Τριμόντιον. ² Greek proper names were originally formed from *μέδω on two lines: (a) the very common masculine names in -μέδων (list in Bechtel, *Die historische Personennamen der Griechen* pp. 301-2), with corresponding feminine in -μέδουσα, as ’Αστυμέδουσα, Εὐρυμέδουσα, ’Ιππομέδουσα (Pape, *Griech. Eigennamen*); (b) a rarer masculine form in -μέδης, as ’Αλκιμέδης, ’Αριστομέδης, Διομέδης (Pape), Κλεομέδδεις (Bechtel *ib.*), to which corresponded a feminine, apparently poetical, in -μέδεια, as ’Ιφιμέδεια (Pape), Χαλκομέδεια (Nonnus xxxv, passim), and the Nereids Πρωτομέδεια and Λαομέδεια in Hesiod, *Theog.* 249, 257; either feminine form might have a variant in -μεδη or -μεδα. Εὐθυμέδεια is therefore a properly formed feminine name. ³ For εὐθυ- with an ethical sense in compounds cf. εὐθυδικία, εὐθυμαχία. ⁴ *Mor.* 821 D; see p. 263. ⁵ SEG VII, 12, 13.