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It is quite another thing, however, given the accents involved, to try to pass oneself off as an Eiron of Naxos when one's accent is not only not that of Naxos, a town on Daphna, but would be unusual in the Farther Islands themselves, where accents tended to be much like those of Cos and Tyros. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 19, Sentence #76)

It is one thing, and a useful thing, to tell a slave to speak of me to others as Eiron of Naxos when in a tavern on Thera. People would think little of that. That would not arouse suspicion. It is quite another thing, however, given the accents involved, to try to pass oneself off as an Eiron of Naxos when one's accent is not only not that of Naxos, a town on Daphna, but would be unusual in the Farther Islands themselves, where accents tended to be much like those of Cos and Tyros. Therefore, as I had had little difficulty in passing myself off as Kenneth Statercounter of Brundisium, a far port and one of many accents, I deemed 'Eiron of Brundisium' a plausible alias. Given the looting and burning of the Inn of Kahlir in Sybaris, it did not seem wise for me to retain the Statercounter name, at least publicly. "It seems," said Lais, "that you put them on and take them off frequently". - (Avengers of Gor)