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[190] Ποιάντιον, ‘of Poeas.’ This method of expressing the patronymic is quoted as among the Homeric Aeolisms. ‘Patronymica in “-ειδης” et “-ιων” cadentia aliena fere sunt ab Aeolici sermonis consuetudine. Eorum loco Aeoles uti solent adiectivis possessivis in “-ιος” terminatis, sicut Romani in nominibus gentiliciis. Eiusmodi patronymica ita Homerus in usum suum convertit, ut plerumque cum nomine “υἱός” coniuncta genitivi quasi munere fungantur. Exempla affero “Ποιάντιος υἱός” Od.3. 190; “Τελαμώνιος Αἴας” Il.2. 528; “Σθένελος Καπανήιος υἱός” Il.4. 367.’ Ameis Theod. de Aeolism. Homer, p. 54. Compare also “γαιήιον υἱόν” Hom. Od.7. 324, “Νηληίῳ υἷι” Hom. Il.2. 20, and, as not unlike, “Aeneia nutrix” in Virgil.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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