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DIOMEDES , Latin grammarian, flourished at the end of the 4th See also:

century A.D. He was the author of an extant Ars grammatica in three books, dedicated to a certain Atha.nasius. The third See also:book is the most important, as containing extracts from Suetonius's De poetic. Diomedes wrote about the same See also:time as See also:Charisius (q.v.) and used the same See also:sources independently. The See also:works of both grammarians are valuable, but whereas much cf Charisius has been lost, the Ars of Diomedes has come down to us See also:complete. In book i. he treats of the eight parts of speech; in ii. of the elementary ideas of See also:grammar and of See also:style; in iii. of quantity and metres. The best edition is in H. Keil's Grammatici See also:Latini, i. ; see also C. von Paucker, Kleinere Studien, i. (1883), on the Latinity of Diomedes. i Chapters xi. and xii., which See also:Lightfoot suggested might be the See also:work of See also:Pantaenus.

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