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A New Greek Grammarian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Sonia Argyle
Sonia Argyle
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In his exposition of MS Vat. gr. 2226 (V) in 1888, Leopold Cohn brought to light two consecutive grammatical treatises, both attributed to Aelius Herodian: the Περ⋯ ⋯μαρτημ⋯νων λ⋯ξεων(here loc. prav.), containing seventy paragraphs, and the Φιλ⋯ταιρος (here Philet.) with 312 glosses. Both had been published in part: fifty-four paragraphs of loc. prav. by G. Hermann in 1801 from MS Mon. gr. 529 (M) and a version of fifty-nine paragraphs by J. Cramer under the title of Περ⋯ τ⋯ν ζητουμ⋯νων κατ⋯ κλ⋯σιν παντ⋯ς λ⋯γου μερ⋯ν;. Glosses 1–78 of Philet. were published by J. Pierson (1759) from a copy of MS Par. gr. 2552 (P).

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , December 1989 , pp. 524 - 535
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1989

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2 I am indebted to Mr J. G. Griffith for a Latin title, de locutionum pravitatibus, which he considers sufficiently Quintilianesque as a translation.

3 Hermann, Gottfried, De emendenda ratione Graecae grammaticae, i (Leipzig, 1801), 301ffGoogle Scholar. Dain incorrectly gives Hermann's MS as Par. gr. 3027 (Dain, A., Le ‘Philétairos’ [Paris, 1954] p. 10)Google Scholar.

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6 See n. 3 above.

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11 This Excerpt is printed by Dain at pp. 75ff. of his edition of Philet. Since I hope to show that the works excerpted were not by Herodian, I put his name in quotes.

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13 On this see Reitzenstein, R., Geschichte der griechischen Etymologika (Leipzig, 1897Google Scholar, repr. Amsterdam, 1964), p. 390.

14 Ibid., pp. 371ff.

15 Compare, e.g., Philet. 25, 132, 227, 241, 252 with Hdn i.190, 7; i.464, 1; ii.308, 30; i.135, 23; i.97, 17 (in Lentz).

16 Gellius also uses the Heraclitean phrase (Diels, , Vorsok. 40)Google Scholar sarcastically: ‘illud Ephesii viri summe nobilis verbum … πολυμαθ⋯η ν⋯ον οὐ διδ⋯σκει’ (Nodes Atticae, praef. 12) and ‘⋯ναι⋯σου, inquam, doctissime virorum, τα⋯της τ⋯ς πολυμαθ⋯ας’ (NA 14.6.5). I am indebted to Leofranc Holford-Strevens for these references.

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18 Fischer (p. 41 n. 10) sees the connection of Ecl. 197 with Cornelianus, but does not trace it to the Philetaerus.

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26 The view of Sir Ronald Syme (personal communication), who also points out the error in OCD 2 in calling him ‘Attidius’ (a quite different Cornelianus, cos. suff. in 150 an d Governor of Syria).

27 Another intellectual Alexander connected with Marcus was ‘the Platonist’ (Med. 1.1.12). Other, earlier Alexanders favoured and promoted by emperors are mentioned by Syme, , Bonner Historia Augusta Colloquium 1982–3 (1985) = Roman Papers, v, ed. Birley, Anthony R. (Oxford, 1988), pp. 552, 556Google Scholar.

28 PIR 1 A 510; cf. B 109.

29 e.g. Severus (PIR A 510; A 1610; 2 p. xviii).

30 Besides the Exc. ‘Hdn’ there is an anonymous Excerpt in MS Vindob. phil. gr. 172, which has selected abbreviations from loc. prav. 1–62, going on without a break to Philet. 82, with selections up to the final gl. 319. There are no titles and the material is continuous with the works that precede and follow.