Dionysius Thrax calls consonants sýmphōna " pronounced with " because they can only be pronounced with a vowel.

Dionysius Thrax in his Art of Grammar also refers to it as " for sending ( a letter )", from the verb epistéllō " send to ", a word from the same root as epistle.

Dionysius Thrax () ( 170 BC – 90 BC ) was a Hellenistic grammarian and a pupil of Aristarchus of Samothrace.

* Dionysius Thrax, Art of Grammar

* Robins, R. H. The Technē Grammatikē of Dionysius Thrax in historical perspective.

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In the West, grammar emerged as a discipline in Hellenism from the 3rd c. BC forward with authors like Rhyanus and Aristarchus of Samothrace, the oldest extant work being the Art of Grammar (), attributed to Dionysius Thrax ( ca.

The grammarian Dionysius Thrax used the Greek word ὑγρος ( hygros, " moist ") to describe the phonemes of classical Greek.

Dionysius Thrax in his Art of Grammar refers to it as or eutheîa " straight ", in contrast to the oblique or " bent " cases.

In the West, the school of thought that came to be known as " traditional grammar " began with the work of Dionysius Thrax.

Because nouns and adjectives share these three categories, Dionysius Thrax does not clearly distinguish between the two, and uses the term ónoma for both, although some of the words that he describes as paragōgón ( pl.

gramma meant letter, and this title means " Art of letters "), possibly written by Dionysius Thrax, lists eight parts of speech, and lays out the broad details of Greek morphology including the case structures.

# The grammarians Dionysius Thrax and Dionysius of Halicarnassus class ζ with the " double " () letters ψ, ξ and analyse it as σ + δ. Contra: The Roman grammarian Verrius Flaccus believed in the opposite sequence, δ + σ ( in Velius Longus, De orthogr.

* Dionysius Thrax, Greek grammarian, 2nd century BC

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The classification into such classes is in the tradition of Dionysius Thrax, who distinguished eight categories: noun, verb, adjective, pronoun, preposition, adverb, conjunction and interjection.

Dionysius Thrax, the author of the first scientific Greek grammar, may also be mentioned.

Mention may also be made of a treatise on orthography, of which a fragment ( on quantity ) has been preserved ; a tract on prosody ; commentaries, on Hephaestion and Dionysius Thrax ; and grammatical notes on the Psalms.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus exhorts us to " Observe in Alcaeus the sublimity, brevity and sweetness coupled with stern power, his splendid figures, and his clearness which was unimpaired by the dialect ; and above all mark his manner of expressing his sentiments on public affairs ," while Quintilian, after commending Alcaeus for his excellence " in that part of his works where he inveighs against tyrants and contributes to good morals ; in his language he is concise, exalted, careful and often like an orator ;" goes on to add: " but he descended into wantonnness and amours, though better fitted for higher things.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus characterized these historians as the forerunners of Thucydides, and these local histories continued to be written into Late Antiquity, as long as the city-states survived.

* Dionysius II goes into exile once more after the successful invasion by Timoleon of Corinth.

Greeks from Aegina and later from Syracuse by Dionysius I colonised the city making it into an emporion.

The dithyramb, a genre of lyrics traditionally sung to Dionysus, was later developed into narratives illustrating heroic myths ; Simonides is the earliest poet known to have composed in this enlarged form ( the geographer Strabo mentioned a dithyramb, Memnon, in which Simonides located the hero's tomb in Syria, indicating that he didn't compose only on legends of Dionysius.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus writes the worship of Semo Sancus was imported into Rome at a very early time by the Sabines who occupied the Quirinal Hill.

Dionysius translated standard works from Greek into Latin, principally the " Life of St. Pachomius ", the " Instruction of St. Proclus of Constantinople " for the Armenians, the " De opificio hominis " of St. Gregory of Nyssa, and the history of the discovery of the head of St. John the Baptist.

This work was a commission from Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia, and was originally intended to be condensed into two or three duodecimo volumes.

Much later the robe fell into the possession of Dionysius of Syracuse and was sold by him for 120 talents.

The Alexandrian computus was converted from the Alexandrian calendar into the Julian calendar in Rome by Dionysius Exiguus, though only for 95 years.

Fabius was used as a source by Plutarch ,< Ref > Life of Romulus </ Ref > Polybius, Livy, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and his work had been translated into Latin by the time of Cicero.

* 10th century-The original treatise, before translation, is copied into a medieval manuscript and attributed to " Dionysius or Longinus.

Represented at its height by rhetoricians such as Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and grammarians such as Herodian and Phrynichus Arabius at Alexandria, this tendency prevailed from the 1st century BC onward, and with the force of an ecclesiastical dogma controlled all subsequent Greek culture, even so that the living form of the Greek language, even then being transformed into modern Greek much later, was quite obscured and only occasionally found expression, chiefly in private documents, though also in popular literature.

He also took a popular Greek poem in hexameters, Periegesis, briefly delimiting the habitable world from the perspective of Alexandria, written by Dionysius Periegetes in a terse and elegant style that was easy to memorize for students, and translated it into an archaising Latin, as descriptio orbis terrae.

The practices of the Roman Catholic Church that had become traditional by 1582 for calculating the Easter and lunar calendars became settled when Dionysius Exiguus translated the rules of the Church of Alexandria from Greek into Latin in 525.

On his way back to Moscow, Dionysius stopped in Kiev, where he was detained by the Kievan prince Vladimir Olgerdovich at the insistence of Cyprian, Archbishop of Kiev, who was to have succeeded as Metropolitan of Moscow in 1378 upon the death of Alexius, but who was not finally welcomed into Moscow until 1390.

Dionysius himself was captured during the persecution, but was later freed by a mob of Christians and fled into the desert.

This was the number finally adopted by Dionysius Exiguus, who first translated these canons into Latin about 500.

It is a singular fact that, though we have no account of Motya having received any Greek population, or fallen into the hands of the Greeks before its conquest by Dionysius, there exist coins of the city with the Greek legend " ΜΟΤΥΑΙΟΝ ".

Greek colonization, however, did not penetrate into the Liburnian area, which remained strongly held, while Syracusan dominance suddenly diminished, very soon, after death of Dionysius the Elder of Syracuse.

Several of these cities joined the Syracusans in an attack against Dionysius which proved to be quite successful, and Dionysius was forced back into the citadel.

As Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( Judicium de Thucydide, c. 23 ) distinctly states that the work current in his time under the name of Cadmus was a forgery, it is most probable that the two first are identical with the Phoenician Cadmus, who, as the reputed inventor of letters, was subsequently transformed into the Milesian and the author of an historical work.