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DOSITHEUS MAGISTER

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 438 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DOSITHEUS MAGISTER , See also:

Greek grammarian, flourished at See also:Rome in the 4th See also:century A.D. He was the author of a Greek See also:translation of a Latin See also:grammar, intended to assist the Greek-speaking inhabitants of the See also:empire in learning Latin. The translation, at first word for word, becomes less frequent, and finally is discontinued altogether. The Latin grammar used was based on the same authorities as those of See also:Charisius and See also:Diomedes, which accounts for the many points of similarity. Dositheus contributed very little of his own. Some Greek-Latin exercises by an unknown writer of the 3rd century, to be learnt by See also:heart and translated, were added to the grammar. They are of considerable value as illustrating the social See also:life of the See also:period and the See also:history of the Latin See also:language. Of these `Ep,unvevµara (Inter pretamenta) , the third See also:book, containing a collection of words and phrases from everyday conversation (KaOlµeptvil 6 uXia) has been preserved. A further appendix consisted of Anecdotes, Letters and Rescripts of the See also:emperor See also:Hadrian; fables of See also:Aesop; extracts from See also:Hyginus; a history of the Trojan See also:War, abridged from the Iliad; and a legal fragment, Hepi iX vOepiavewv We manumissionibus). See also:Editions: Grammatica in H. Keil, Grammatici See also:Latini, vii. and separately (1871) ; Hermeneumata by G. Getz (1892) (in G.

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Lowe's Corpus glossariorum Latinorum, iii.) and E. Becking (1832), which contains the appendix' (including the legal fragment) ; see also C. See also:Lachmann, Versuch fiber Dositheus (1839) ; H. See also:Hagen, De Dosithei magistri quae feruntur glossis (1877).

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