Apollonius Dyscolus

[ ap-uh-loh-nee-uhs dis-kuh-luhs ]

noun

1. died a.d. c140, Greek grammarian.

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Two eminent grammarians of Alexandria, Apollonius Dyscolus and his son Herodian, summed up the labours and controversies of their predecessors, and upon their works were based the Latin grammar composed by Aelius Donatus in the 4th century, and the eighteen books on grammar compiled by Priscian in the age of Justinian.

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We find Quintilian in the first century; Scaurus, Apollonius Dyscolus, and his son, Herodianus, in the second; Probus and Donatus in the fourth.

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He drew from the best authorities—Apollonius Dyscolus, Herodian, Orion, Theodosius of Alexandria.

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Fragment #36—Apollonius Dyscolus 1728, On the Pronoun, p.

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