According to a very different account by an ancient grammarian, Herodotus refused to begin reading his work at the festival of Olympia until some clouds offered him a bit of shade, by which time however the assembly had dispersed-thus the proverbial expression " Herodotus and his shade " to describe any man who misses his opportunity through delay.

* Remmius Palaemon, the ancient Roman grammarian

The ancient grammarian Simmias of Rhodes in the 3rd century BC connected the Hyperboreans to the Massagetae and Posidonius in the 1st century BC to the Western Celts, but Pomponius Mela placed them even further north in the vicinity of the Arctic.

Moschus (), ancient Greek bucolic poet and student of the Alexandrian grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace, was born at Syracuse and flourished about 150 BC.

During the pre-Islamic era in present day Pakistan, the language of the masses was refined by the ancient grammarian Pāṇini, who set the rules of an ancient language called Sanskrit which was used principally for Hindu scriptures ( analogous to Latin in the Western world ).

In the 5th century BC in ancient India, the grammarian Pāṇini formulated the grammar of Sanskrit in 3959 rules known as the Ashtadhyayi which was highly systematized and technical.

Pāṇini was a famous ancient Sanskrit grammarian born in Shalātura, identified with modern Lahur near Attock in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan.

* Ammonius Grammaticus ( 4th century ), ancient Greek grammarian

* ( c. 600-500 BCE ), ancient Sanskrit grammarian

He was held in repute as a grammarian, wrote much poetry, compiled astronomical tables, devoted most of his life to the study of the ancient history and geography of Arabia.

:( The ancient grammarian ) Sakatayana says that prepositions when not attached ( to nouns or verbs ) do not express meanings ; but Gargya says that they illustrate ( or modify ) the action which is expressed by a noun or verb, and that their senses are various ( even when detached ).

Kamboja Aupamanyava was a distinguished scholar / grammarian and finds a place in the line of great ancient Vedic teachers of Vamsa Brahmana of Sama Veda.

* Antoninus Liberalis, an ancient Greek grammarian who lived between the first and third centuries AD

* Pāṇini, the ancient Hindu grammarian who formulated the 3959 rules of Sanskrit morphology.

The ancient Latin writers Varro and Cicero considered the etymology of Dīāna as allied to that of dies and connected to the shine of the Moon.

** April 20 – Cicero, in Rome, writes to Varro " If our voices are no longer heard in the Senate and in the Forum, let us follow the example of the ancient sages and serve our country through our writings, concentrating on questions of ethics and constitutional law.

Furrina ( or Furina ), was an ancient Roman goddess whose function had become obscure by the time of Varro.

Consul Varro, who was in command on the first day, is presented by ancient sources as a man of reckless nature and hubris, and was determined to defeat Hannibal.

Not a little of the laborious erudition of Varro and other ancient scholars has survived in his pages.

The function of ' god of beginnings ' has been clearly expressed in numerous ancient sources, among them most notably perhaps Cicero, Ovid and Varro.

Most ancient Greek and Roman chroniclers, poets, grammarians and scholars ( Eratosthenes, Varro, Apollodorus of Athens, Ovid, Censorinus, Catullus, and Castor of Rhodes ) believed in a threefold division of history: ádelon ( obscure ), mythikón ( mythical ) and historikón ( historical ) periods.

Varro and Castor of Rhodes also wrote something very similar ; however, some ancient Greek and Romans attempted to calculate the date for the creation by using ancient sources or records of mythological figures.

Marcus Terentius Varro (; 116 BC – 27 BC ) was an ancient Roman scholar and writer.

X. 1. 95 ), Varro was recognized as an important source by many other ancient authors, among them Cicero, Pliny the Elder, Virgil in the Georgics, Columella, Aulus Gellius, Macrobius, Augustine, and Vitruvius, who credits him ( VII. Intr. 14 ) with a book on architecture.

His life was habitually included in the ancient biographical collections of leading generals and politicians, originating in the biographical compendium of famous Romans, published by Marcus Terentius Varro.

The ancient Romans further developed the techniques learnt from the Etruscans, as shown by numerous works of literature containing information that is still valid today: De Agri Cultura ( around 160 BC ) by Cato the Elder, De re rustica by Marcus Terentius Varro, the Georgics by Virgil and De re rustica by Columella.

# Therefore not only all poets, but even all historians and all writers on ancient matters, who have published for posterity his deeds done in Italy, agree he was a man: in Greek, Diodorus and Thallus, and in Latin, Nepos and Cassius and Varro.

Translated into English, with illustrations from Pliny, Cato, Varro, Palladius and other ancient and modern authors London: A. Millar, 1745

The sense of antiquitates, the idea that a civilization could be recovered by a systematic exploration of its relics and material culture, in the sense used by Varro and reflected in Josephus ' Antiquities of the Jews was lost during the Middle Ages, when ancient objects were collected with other appeals, the rarity or strangeness of their materials or simply because they were thought to be endowed with magical or miraculous powers.

Falacer, or more fully dīvus pater falacer, was an ancient Italian god, according to Varro.

The scientific name comes from Lapsane, an edible herb described by Marcus Terentius Varro of ancient Rome.

Romansh, spoken by two percent of the population in southeast Switzerland, is an ancient Rheato-Romanic language derived from Latin, remnants of ancient Celtic languages and perhaps Etruscan.

Recent research suggests that the historical Ainu culture originated in a merger of the Okhotsk culture with the Satsumon, one of the ancient archaeological cultures that are considered to have derived from the Jōmon period cultures of the Japanese Archipelago.

Jews, Protestants, and Catholics all use the Masoretic text as the textual basis for their translations of the protocanonical books ( those which are received by both Jews and all Christians ), with various emendations derived from a multiplicity of other ancient witnesses ( such as the Septuagint, the Vulgate, the Dead Sea Scrolls, etc.

The spelling and names in both the 1609 – 1610 Douay Old Testament ( and in the 1582 Rheims New Testament ) and the 1749 revision by Bishop Challoner ( the edition currently in print used by many Catholics, and the source of traditional Catholic spellings in English ) and in the Septuagint ( an ancient translation of the Old Testament in to Greek, which is widely used by the Eastern Orthodox instead of the Masoretic text ) differ from those spellings and names used in modern editions which are derived from the Hebrew Masoretic text.

Thus parliamentary constituencies were derived from the ancient boroughs.

Many believe that al-kīmīā is derived from χημία, which is in turn derived from the word Chemi or Kimi, which is the ancient name of Egypt in Egyptian.

The name diamond is derived from the ancient Greek αδάμας ( adámas ), " proper ", " unalterable ", " unbreakable ", " untamed ", from ἀ-( a -), " un -" + δαμάω ( damáō ), " I overpower ", " I tame ".

It is an encyclopedic lexicon, written in Greek, with 30, 000 entries, many drawing from ancient sources that have since been lost, and often derived from medieval Christian compilers.

Eritrea is an ancient name, associated in the past with its Greek form Erythraia, Ἐρυθραία, and its derived Latin form Erythræa.

The term is derived from the ancient Greek noun (), which means " the abandonment ", " the downfall ", or " the darkening of a heavenly body ", which is derived from the verb () which means " to abandon ", " to darken ", or " to cease to exist ," a combination of prefix (), from preposition (), " out ," and of verb (), " to be absent ".

Georgian designs usually lay within the Classical orders of architecture and employed a decorative vocabulary derived from ancient Rome or Greece.

Early modern scholars derived the name from Lucis, an ancient people mentioned in Avienus ' Ora Maritima and Tan, from Celtic Tan ( Stan ), or Tain, meaning a region or implying a country of waters, a root word that formerly meant a prince or sovereign governor of a region.

Many scholars believe that Noah and the Biblical Flood story are derived from the Mesopotamian version, predominantly because Biblical mythology that is today found in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Mandeanism shares overlapping consistency with far older written ancient Mesopotamian story of The Great Flood, and that the early Hebrews were known to have lived in Mesopotamia.

Nuncio is an ecclesiastical diplomatic title, derived from the ancient Latin word, Nuntius, meaning " envoy.

The word nature is derived from the Latin word natura, or " essential qualities, innate disposition ", and in ancient times, literally meant " birth ".

The choriamb is derived from some ancient Greek and Latin poetry.

The term " pontiff " is derived from the Latin word pontifex, which literally means " bridge builder " ( pons + facere ), and which designated a member of the principal college of priests in ancient Rome.

* The 32-story Pyramid Arena in Memphis, Tennessee ( a city named after the ancient Egyptian capital whose name itself was derived from the name of one of its pyramids ).

Because Ptolemy derived many of his key latitudes from crude longest day values, his latitudes are erroneous on average by roughly a degree ( 2 degrees for Byzantium, 4 degrees for Carthage ), though capable ancient astronomers knew their latitudes to more like a minute.

Fossil fuels such as coal and gasoline store ancient energy derived from sunlight by organisms that later died, became buried and over time were then converted into these fuels.

In Greek mythology, Pandora ( ancient Greek,, derived from " all " and " gift ", thus " all-gifted " or " all-giving ") was allegedly the first woman, who was made out of clay.

It is derived from the Greek piezo or piezein ( πιέζειν ), which means to squeeze or press, and electric or electron (), which stands for amber, an ancient source of electric charge.