Dionysius Thrax

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[thraks] / θræks /

noun

1. c100 b.c., Greek grammarian.

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Example Sentences

The zeal with which the Romans threw themselves into the study of Greek resulted in the school grammar of Dionysius Thrax, a pupil of Aristarchus, which he published at Rome in the time of Pompey and which is still in existence.

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The grammar of Dionysius Thrax, which he wrote for Roman schoolboys in the time of Pompey, has formed the starting-point for the innumerable school-grammars which have since seen the light, and suggested that division of the matter treated of which they have followed.

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To the middle of the 7th century also belong the translations of Aristotle’s treatises *On the Categories, and *On Interpretation, and of *Porphyry’s Isagogē, as well as of voluminous Greek commentaries on these books; the version of the *Grammar of Dionysius Thrax and an incomplete Euclid.

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

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

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