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DIONYSIUS THRAX (so called because his See also:father was a Thracian) , the author of the first See also:Greek See also:grammar, flourished about 100 B.C. He was a native of See also:Alexandria, where he attended the lectures of See also:Aristarchus, and afterwards taught See also:rhetoric in See also:Rhodes and See also:Rome. His TEXvn ypaµµaruc , which we possess (though probably not in its See also:original See also:form), begins with the See also:definition of grammar and its functions. Dealing next with See also:accent, See also:punctuation marks, sounds and syllables, it goes on to the different parts of speech (eight in number) and their inflections. No rules of syntax are given, and nothing is said about See also:style. The authorship of Dionysius was doubted by many of the See also:early See also:middle-See also:age commentators and grammarians, and in See also:modern times its origin has been attributed to the See also:oecumenical See also:college founded by See also:Constantine the See also:Great, which continued in existence till 730. But there seems no See also:reason for doubt; the great grammarians of imperial times (See also:Apollonius Dyscolus and Herodian) were acquainted with the See also:work in its See also:present form, although, as was natural considering its popularity, additions and alterations may have been made later. The eixv,l was first edited by J. A. See also:Fabricius from a See also:Hamburg MS. and published in his Bibliotheca Graeca, vi. (ed. Harles).

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translation, belonging to the 4th or 5th See also:century, containing five additional chapters, was published with the Greek See also:text and a See also:French version, by M. Cirbied (183o). Dionysius also contributed much to the See also:criticism and elucidation of See also:Homer, and was the author of various other works—amongst them an See also:account of Rhodes, and a collection of MsMrc [ (See also:literary studies), to which the considerable fragment in the Stromata (v. 8) of See also:Clement of Alexandria probably belongs. See also:Editions, with scholia, by I. See also:Bekker in See also:Anecdote Graeca, ii. and G. Uhlig (1884), reviewed exhaustively by P. Egenolrf in See also:Bursian's Jahresbericht, vol. xlvi. (1888); Scholia, ed. A. Hilgard (1901); see also W. Horschelmann, De Dionysii Thracis interpretibus veteribus (1874) ; J.

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