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The First Grammarian's choice of terminology, such as the use of the Latin terms "capitulum" and "vers", as well as a quotation from Cato's Distichs, suggests he received a Latin education. However, he was also well-versed and familiar with Norse skaldic poetic verse, making him "one of that line of students of poetics, whose greatest ...
Diomedes Grammaticus was a Latin grammarian who probably lived in the late 4th century AD. He wrote a grammatical treatise, known either as De Oratione et Partibus Orationis et Vario Genere Metrorum libri III or Ars grammatica in three books, dedicated to a certain Athanasius.
The Ars Grammatica or De Oratione et Partibus Orationis et Vario Genere Metrorum libri III by Diomedes Grammaticus is a Latin grammatical treatise. Diomedes probably wrote in the late 4th century AD. The treatise is dedicated to a certain Athanasius. [3] Book I the eight parts of speech; Book II the elementary ideas of grammar and of style
Hephaestion (Ancient Greek: Ἡφαιστίων Hēphaistíōn; fl. 2nd century AD) was a grammarian of Alexandria who flourished in the age of the Antonines.He was the author of a manual (abridged from a larger work in 48 books) of Greek metres, which is most valuable as the only complete treatise on the subject that has been preserved.
The Grammarians' Battleground: controversies surrounding the publication of John Holmes' Greek grammar by D. Stoker in Paradigm: the Journal of the Textbook Colloquium, volume 17 (1995), pages 1–14; Michael, Ian, The Teaching of English From the Sixteenth Century to 1870 (Cambridge University Press, 1987) p. 480 at books.google.com
He made a 20-volume epitome of Verrius Flaccus's voluminous and encyclopedic treatise De verborum significatione. Flaccus had been a celebrated grammarian who flourished in the reign of Augustus . Festus gives the etymology as well as the meaning of many words, and his work throws considerable light on the language, mythology and antiquities of ...
Details are sparse, however, he is believed to have lived around the 7th or 8th century BCE, the same period as the grammarian Pāṇini. [4] His identity is often confused with other scholars with the same name, however, he is known for his grammatical treatise, Śākaṭāyana-śabdānuśāsana. [5]
The Art of Grammar (Greek: Τέχνη Γραμματική - or romanized, Téchnē Grammatikḗ) is a treatise on Greek grammar, attributed to Dionysius Thrax, who wrote in the 2nd century BC. Contents