It is a deme of the [sc. Athenian] tribe Kekropis. They used to be ridiculed in comedy as slanderers. Hence they used to call speaking ill [of someone] "playing the Aixonian".[1]
*ai)cwnhi/s: dh=mo/s e)sti fulh=s *kekropi/dos. e)kwmw|dou=nto de\ w(s bla/sfhmoi. a)f' ou(= kai\ to\ kakw=s le/gesqai ai)cwneu/esqai e)/legon.
The transmitted headword is
*ai)cwnhi/s, presumably proffered as a feminine adjective or noun in the nominative singular. However, in the Suda's source, Harpokration, it is the locative
*ai)cwnh=sin ("at-Aixone"), cited from
Isaeus fr. 99 Sauppe.
On Aixone (present-day Glyphada) see generally C.W.J. Eliot,
Coastal Demes of Attika (Toronto 1962) 6-24; J.S. Traill,
The Political Organization of Attica (Princeton 1975) 50; D. Whitehead,
The Demes of Attica (Princeton 1986) index s.v.
[3] See already
alphaiota 239; also
alphaiota 240,
alphaiota 241.
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