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App. III. AUROKRA. 481
Tlie forms used at the Council of Chalcedon are the most important;
because there we have the actual signatures of the bishop : his regular
formula is 'A/ajA.as sitIvko-os AiipoKpwv opiuas vneypa\\ra, Aquilas episcopns
Aurocrorum subscripsi1. Hence AvpoKpa must be taken as the native
name, with ethnic Avponpevs, and local adjective AvpoKprjvds. Now it is
universally admitted, as beyond question, that the fountains in the plain
above Apameia were usually called Aulokrene, and the mountain range
beside the lake was called mons Aulocrenus, as Pliny mentions. The
latter name shows plainly that Aulocrenus is a local adjective. Now,
even without laying special stress on the Chalcedonian form Aulokra 2, it
is obvious that a lake, which produced reeds used for making flutes and
was associated with a legend about the origin of the flute, was sure to
originate the grecization of Avponp-qvq into Avko-Kprjvq (where the change
of accent is facilitated by the change of category, an adjective to
a noun).
Again, it is, in my opinion, a matter not admitting of doubt that the
springs at which Manlius encamped in his march from the shores of
Lake Askania to the plain of Metropolis and thence to Synnada, called by
Livy Rhotrini Fonles, are the fountain Aulokrene. The line of march is
beyond question : there is one road, and no other. Prof. G. Hirschfeld's
identification of Aporidos-Kome confirms it. There are no other
important springs in the whole district, except those of the Maeander-
branches; and of these only Aulokrene could be on the march of
Manlius. This identification is tacitly admitted by M. Radet; though
he has not spoken in his text about it, yet his map shows that he regards
Livy's Rhotrini Fonles as the common Aulokrene; and, when he admits
the identity of the fountains, I presume that he accepts my argument
identifying the names Bhocrini3 Fontes and Aulokrene, through an
intermediate form AvpoKpiqval Hqyai, a form which in all probability
is a typical case. His identification AvkuKpav. In the Latin the forms Auto-
could be justified only by supposing clinus (Act. XV) and Androsiorum (Act.
that Aurokra or Aurokla is a seriously XVI, I) are mere corruptions,
corrupted form; but it is supported by 2 Involving an adjective AiXoKprjvm,
so many diverse authorities that the AvknKprjvi).
supposition is inadmissible. 3 The corruption t for c is a common
1 The form shows that the native phenomenon in MSS. Mayhoff quotes
pronunciation was AvpoKpa, not Avpoxpa the same corruption in Pliny XVI 240,
(the latter being probably a grecized where three MSS. have Aulotrene,, an
pronunciation). The signature is given exact parallel to Rhotrini. Probably
in Actiones III, VI, and XVI (in III Avpo- the MS. of Polybius, which Livy had
KpS>v in margin, AvpuK\S>v in text, Latin before him, was blurred, so that he
column Aurocrorum). In the general read POKPHNAI in place of AYPO-
list of bishops in Actio I, the form is K P H N AI.
VOL. I. PT. II. K
Tlie forms used at the Council of Chalcedon are the most important;
because there we have the actual signatures of the bishop : his regular
formula is 'A/ajA.as sitIvko-os AiipoKpwv opiuas vneypa\\ra, Aquilas episcopns
Aurocrorum subscripsi1. Hence AvpoKpa must be taken as the native
name, with ethnic Avponpevs, and local adjective AvpoKprjvds. Now it is
universally admitted, as beyond question, that the fountains in the plain
above Apameia were usually called Aulokrene, and the mountain range
beside the lake was called mons Aulocrenus, as Pliny mentions. The
latter name shows plainly that Aulocrenus is a local adjective. Now,
even without laying special stress on the Chalcedonian form Aulokra 2, it
is obvious that a lake, which produced reeds used for making flutes and
was associated with a legend about the origin of the flute, was sure to
originate the grecization of Avponp-qvq into Avko-Kprjvq (where the change
of accent is facilitated by the change of category, an adjective to
a noun).
Again, it is, in my opinion, a matter not admitting of doubt that the
springs at which Manlius encamped in his march from the shores of
Lake Askania to the plain of Metropolis and thence to Synnada, called by
Livy Rhotrini Fonles, are the fountain Aulokrene. The line of march is
beyond question : there is one road, and no other. Prof. G. Hirschfeld's
identification of Aporidos-Kome confirms it. There are no other
important springs in the whole district, except those of the Maeander-
branches; and of these only Aulokrene could be on the march of
Manlius. This identification is tacitly admitted by M. Radet; though
he has not spoken in his text about it, yet his map shows that he regards
Livy's Rhotrini Fonles as the common Aulokrene; and, when he admits
the identity of the fountains, I presume that he accepts my argument
identifying the names Bhocrini3 Fontes and Aulokrene, through an
intermediate form AvpoKpiqval Hqyai, a form which in all probability
is a typical case. His identification AvkuKpav. In the Latin the forms Auto-
could be justified only by supposing clinus (Act. XV) and Androsiorum (Act.
that Aurokra or Aurokla is a seriously XVI, I) are mere corruptions,
corrupted form; but it is supported by 2 Involving an adjective AiXoKprjvm,
so many diverse authorities that the AvknKprjvi).
supposition is inadmissible. 3 The corruption t for c is a common
1 The form shows that the native phenomenon in MSS. Mayhoff quotes
pronunciation was AvpoKpa, not Avpoxpa the same corruption in Pliny XVI 240,
(the latter being probably a grecized where three MSS. have Aulotrene,, an
pronunciation). The signature is given exact parallel to Rhotrini. Probably
in Actiones III, VI, and XVI (in III Avpo- the MS. of Polybius, which Livy had
KpS>v in margin, AvpuK\S>v in text, Latin before him, was blurred, so that he
column Aurocrorum). In the general read POKPHNAI in place of AYPO-
list of bishops in Actio I, the form is K P H N AI.
VOL. I. PT. II. K