1. Homer, Iliad, 5.31 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •tryphon of alexandria Found in books: Pezzini and Taylor,Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World (2019)" 60| 5.31. Ἆρες Ἄρες βροτολοιγὲ μιαιφόνε τειχεσιπλῆτα | 5.31. took furious Ares by the hand and spake to him, saying:Ares, Ares, thou bane of mortals, thou blood-stained stormer of walls, shall we not now leave the Trojans and Achaeans to fight, to whichsoever of the two it be that father Zeus shall vouchsafe glory? But for us twain, let us give place, and avoid the wrath of Zeus. |
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2. Herodotus, Histories, 2.2 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •tryphon of alexandria Found in books: Pezzini and Taylor,Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World (2019)" 6| 2.2. οἱ δὲ Αἰγύπτιοι, πρὶν μὲν ἢ Ψαμμήτιχον σφέων βασιλεῦσαι, ἐνόμιζον ἑωυτοὺς πρώτους γενέσθαι πάντων ἀνθρώπων· ἐπειδὴ δὲ Ψαμμήτιχος βασιλεύσας ἠθέλησε εἰδέναι οἵτινες γενοίατο πρῶτοι, ἀπὸ τούτου νομίζουσι Φρύγας προτέρους γενέσθαι ἑωυτῶν, τῶν δὲ ἄλλων ἑωυτούς. Ψαμμήτιχος δὲ ὡς οὐκ ἐδύνατο πυνθανόμενος πόρον οὐδένα τούτου ἀνευρεῖν, οἳ γενοίατο πρῶτοι ἀνθρώπων, ἐπιτεχνᾶται τοιόνδε. παιδία δύο νεογνὰ ἀνθρώπων τῶν ἐπιτυχόντων δίδωσι ποιμένι τρέφειν ἐς τὰ ποίμνια τροφήν τινα τοιήνδε, ἐντειλάμενος μηδένα ἀντίον αὐτῶν μηδεμίαν φωνὴν ἱέναι, ἐν στέγῃ δὲ ἐρήμῃ ἐπʼ ἑωυτῶν κέεσθαι αὐτά, καὶ τὴν ὥρην ἐπαγινέειν σφι αἶγας, πλήσαντα δὲ γάλακτος τἆλλα διαπρήσσεσθαι· ταῦτα δὲ ἐποίεέ τε καὶ ἐνετέλλετο Ψαμμήτιχος θέλων ἀκοῦσαι τῶν παιδίων, ἀπαλλαχθέντων τῶν ἀσήμων κνυζημάτων, ἥντινα φωνὴν ῥήξουσι πρώτην· τά περ ὦν καὶ ἐγένετο. ὡς γὰρ διέτης χρόνος ἐγεγόνεε ταῦτα τῷ ποιμένι πρήσσοντι, ἀνοίγοντι τὴν θύρην καὶ ἐσιόντι τὰ παιδία ἀμφότερα προσπίπτοντα βεκὸς ἐφώνεον, ὀρέγοντα τὰς χεῖρας. τὰ μὲν δὴ πρῶτα ἀκούσας ἥσυχος ἦν ὁ ποιμήν· ὡς δὲ πολλάκις φοιτέοντι καὶ ἐπιμελομένῳ πολλὸν ἦν τοῦτο τὸ ἔπος, οὕτω δὴ σημήνας τῷ δεσπότῃ ἤγαγε τὰ παιδία κελεύσαντος ἐς ὄψιν τὴν ἐκείνου. ἀκούσας δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ Ψαμμήτιχος ἐπυνθάνετο οἵτινες ἀνθρώπων βεκός τι καλέουσι, πυνθανόμενος δὲ εὕρισκε Φρύγας καλέοντας τὸν ἄρτον. οὕτω συνεχώρησαν Αἰγύπτιοι καὶ τοιούτῳ σταθμησάμενοι πρήγματι τοὺς Φρύγας πρεσβυτέρους εἶναι ἑωυτῶν. ὧδε μὲν γενέσθαι τῶν ἱρέων τοῦ Ἡφαίστου τοῦ ἐν Μέμφι ἤκουον· Ἕλληνες δὲ λέγουσι ἄλλα τε μάταια πολλὰ καὶ ὡς γυναικῶν τὰς γλώσσας ὁ Ψαμμήτιχος ἐκταμὼν τὴν δίαιταν οὕτω ἐποιήσατο τῶν παίδων παρὰ ταύτῃσι τῇσι γυναιξί. | 2.2. Now before Psammetichus became king of Egypt, the Egyptians believed that they were the oldest people on earth. But ever since Psammetichus became king and wished to find out which people were the oldest, they have believed that the Phrygians were older than they, and they than everybody else. ,Psammetichus, when he was in no way able to learn by inquiry which people had first come into being, devised a plan by which he took two newborn children of the common people and gave them to a shepherd to bring up among his flocks. He gave instructions that no one was to speak a word in their hearing; they were to stay by themselves in a lonely hut, and in due time the shepherd was to bring goats and give the children their milk and do everything else necessary. ,Psammetichus did this, and gave these instructions, because he wanted to hear what speech would first come from the children, when they were past the age of indistinct babbling. And he had his wish; for one day, when the shepherd had done as he was told for two years, both children ran to him stretching out their hands and calling “Bekos!” as he opened the door and entered. ,When he first heard this, he kept quiet about it; but when, coming often and paying careful attention, he kept hearing this same word, he told his master at last and brought the children into the king's presence as required. Psammetichus then heard them himself, and asked to what language the word “Bekos” belonged; he found it to be a Phrygian word, signifying bread. ,Reasoning from this, the Egyptians acknowledged that the Phrygians were older than they. This is the story which I heard from the priests of Hephaestus' temple at Memphis ; the Greeks say among many foolish things that Psammetichus had the children reared by women whose tongues he had cut out. |
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| 3. Aristotle, Poetics, 1456b20-1, 1457a18-23, 1457b1-2, 1458a21-23, 1459a9-11, 1459b32-37, 1456b9 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Montanari and Rengakos, In the Company of Many Good Poets. Collected Papers of Franco Montanari: Vol. I: Ancient Scholarship (2023) 599 |
| 4. Lucilius Gaius, Fragments, 1100, 1130, 1160, 1322, 1326-1332, 1334-1338, 1340, 356-357, 371, 374-375, 381, 635-636, 775, 784-790, 1333 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Pezzini and Taylor,Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World (2019)" 55 |
| 5. Cicero, Lucullus, 102 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •tryphon of alexandria Found in books: Pezzini and Taylor,Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World (2019)" 55 |
| 6. Varro, On The Latin Language, 5.96-5.97 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •tryphon of alexandria Found in books: Pezzini and Taylor,Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World (2019)" 61 |
7. Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory, 1.6.7-1.6.8, 1.7.1, 1.7.15, 1.7.19 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •tryphon of alexandria Found in books: Pezzini and Taylor,Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World (2019)" 59, 60, 75 | 1.7.1. Having stated the rules which we must follow in speaking, I will now proceed to lay down the rules which must be observed when we write. Such rules are called orthography by the Greeks; let us style it the science of writing correctly. This science does not consist merely in the knowledge of the letters composing each syllable (such a study is beneath the dignity of a teacher of grammar), but, in my opinion, develops all its subtlety in connexion with doubtful points. |
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| 8. Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax, 7.6-7.14 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •tryphon of alexandria Found in books: Pezzini and Taylor,Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World (2019)" 60 |
9. Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, 1.6.7-1.6.8, 1.7.1, 1.7.15, 1.7.19 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •tryphon of alexandria Found in books: Pezzini and Taylor,Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World (2019)" 59, 60, 75 | 1.7.1. Having stated the rules which we must follow in speaking, I will now proceed to lay down the rules which must be observed when we write. Such rules are called orthography by the Greeks; let us style it the science of writing correctly. This science does not consist merely in the knowledge of the letters composing each syllable (such a study is beneath the dignity of a teacher of grammar), but, in my opinion, develops all its subtlety in connexion with doubtful points. |
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10. Suetonius, De Grammaticis, 7 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •tryphon of alexandria Found in books: Pezzini and Taylor,Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World (2019)" 61 | 7. Marcus Antonius Gnipho was born in Gaul of free parents, but was disowned. He was set free by his foster-father and given an education, at Alexandria, according to some, and in intimate association with Dionysius Scytobrachion; but this I can hardly credit for chronological reasons. It is said that he was a man of great talent, of unexampled powers of memory, and well read not only in Latin but in Greek as well; that his disposition, too, was kindly and good-natured, and that he never made any stipulation about his fees, and therefore received the more from the generosity of his pupils. He first gave instruction in the house of the Deified Julius, when the latter was still a boy, and then in his own home. He taught rhetoric too, giving daily instruction in speaking, but declaiming only once a week. They say also that distinguished men attended his school, including Cicero even while he was praetor. Although he did not live beyond his fiftieth year, he wrote a great deal. Ateius Philologus, however, declares that he left but two volumes, "On the Latin Language," maintaining that the other works attributed to him were those of his pupils and not his own. Yet his own name is sometimes found in them, for example * * * |
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| 11. Gellius, Attic Nights, 13.26.4 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •tryphon of alexandria Found in books: Pezzini and Taylor,Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World (2019)" 100 |
12. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 7.59 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •tryphon of alexandria Found in books: Pezzini and Taylor,Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World (2019)" 61 | 7.59. There are five excellences of speech – pure Greek, lucidity, conciseness, appropriateness, distinction. By good Greek is meant language faultless in point of grammar and free from careless vulgarity. Lucidity is a style which presents the thought in a way easily understood; conciseness a style that employs no more words than are necessary for setting forth the subject in hand; appropriateness lies in a style akin to the subject; distinction in the avoidance of colloquialism. Among vices of style barbarism is violation of the usage of Greeks of good standing; while there is solecism when the sentence has an incongruous construction. |
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| 13. Proclus, In Platonis Cratylum Commentaria, 17 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •tryphon of alexandria Found in books: Pezzini and Taylor,Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World (2019)" 6 |
| 15. Trypho, Fr., 130, 132-134, 131 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Pezzini and Taylor,Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World (2019)" 58 |
| 17. Anon., Scholia On Hesiod Th., 389 Tagged with subjects: •tryphon of alexandria Found in books: Montanari and Rengakos, In the Company of Many Good Poets. Collected Papers of Franco Montanari: Vol. I: Ancient Scholarship (2023) 671 |
| 18. Epigraphy, Cil I2, 365 Tagged with subjects: •tryphon of alexandria Found in books: Pezzini and Taylor,Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World (2019)" 61 |
| 19. Ammonius, In Int. Cag, Tagged with subjects: •tryphon of alexandria Found in books: Pezzini and Taylor,Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World (2019)" 100 |
| 20. Trypho, On Orthography, 303 Tagged with subjects: •tryphon of alexandria Found in books: Pezzini and Taylor,Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World (2019)" 60 |
| 21. Augustinus, Gramm. Gl, 5.517.19 Tagged with subjects: •tryphon of alexandria Found in books: Pezzini and Taylor,Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World (2019)" 61 |
| 22. Servius, In Artem Donati Gl, 5.446.19 Tagged with subjects: •tryphon of alexandria Found in books: Pezzini and Taylor,Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World (2019)" 61 |
