stephan huller

μαλακίων = darling is a diminutive of μαλακός soft

Άττίκίων (Aristophanes, Peace 214) is the diminutive of the masculine name 'Αττικος in the same way as Μαρκίων is a diminutive of Μαρκος.

Hilgenfeld wrote about this a hundred years ago as I noted in a previous thread:

That Μαρκίων is a diminutive of Μαρκος, I conclude also from the relation of Εὔρυτος to Εὐρυτίων, (vgl. Phil. Griech. Gramm. 21. Aufl. S. 119, Anm. 12), κοδράτίων (from Philostratus vit. sophist. II, 6 p. 250) to κοδράτος (vgl. W. H. Waddington, Memoire sur la Chronologie de la vie du rheteur Aristide, 1867, p. 32). So also I think κάλλιστος, the Roman Bishop (217 - 222) against whom the author of the Philosophumena shows such hostility, is behind Rhodon's reference to κάλλιστίωνι προσφωνων (Eusebius, Church History V, 13, 8). Stronger still is the case for the Μαρκιανοί - which Justin Dial c. Tr. c. 35 p. 253 mentions before the Valentinians, Basilideans, Satornillians, etc - being a reference to Marcionites. Similarly, one will have to read the Muratorianum Z 82-84: quia etiam librum novum psalmorum Marciani (= Marcionitae conscripserunt).

Yet I keep coming across examples so I thought I would mentioned it. Another would be the Μαρκιανός instead of Μαρκίων associated with a docetic gospel in Serapion of Antioch's late second century report cited by Eusebius (Church History 6.12).