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Dionysius Thrax

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[thraks] / θræks /

noun

  1. c100 b.c., Greek grammarian.


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Now the first real Greek grammar was that of Dionysius Thrax.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

We can follow the stream of grammatical science from Dionysius Thrax to our own time in an almost uninterrupted chain of Greek and Roman writers.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

We must not look in the grammar of Dionysius Thrax for a correct and well-articulated skeleton of human speech.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

Dionysius Thrax, the author of the first practical Greek grammar, 100.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

We have thus arrived at the time when, as we saw in an earlier part of this lecture, Dionysius Thrax published the first elementary grammar of Greek at Rome.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max