* Drinking songs: According to the grammarian Athenaeus, Alcaeus made every occasion an excuse for drinking and he has provided posterity several quotes in proof of it.

Many fragments were supplied in quotes by Athenaeus, principally on the subject of wine-drinking, but fr. 333, " wine, window into a man ", was quoted much later by the Byzantine grammarian, John Tzetzes.

Athenaeus of Naucratis (;, Athēnaios Naukratitēs ; ) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD.

Athenaeus makes ' Ulpian ' out to be a grammarian and philologist, characterised by his customary interjections: " Where does this word occur in writing ?".

Finally, Athenaeus ( a grammarian of the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD ), wrote of a contemporary Athenian festival dedicated to Prometheus: " Aeschylus clearly states in the Unbound that in honor of Prometheus we place a garland on the head as recompense of his bondage.

Finally, Athenaeus ( a grammarian of the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD ) wrote in Book 15. 16 of his Deipnosophists the following regarding a contemporary Athenian festival dedicated to Prometheus: " Aeschylus clearly states in the Unbound that in honor of Prometheus we place a garland on the head as recompense of his bondage.

The hymn to Hermes, fr308 ( b ), was quoted by Hephaestion ( grammarian ) and both he and Libanius, the rhetorician, quoted the first two lines of fr. 350, celebrating the return from Babylon of Alcaeus ' brother.

Of Telesilla's poems only two lines remain, quoted by the grammarian Hephaestion, apparently from a partheneion, or song for a chorus of maidens.

They are spoken of in the highest terms by Tacitus, Quintilian, and the younger Plinius, and were read even in a much later age, as one of them is quoted by the grammarian Charisius.

Aupamanyava is repeatedly quoted as a grammarian by Yaska in his Nirukta, and also mentioned in respect of the Nisadas and the Panca-janah.

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.

The Suda assigns to another Pamphilus, simply described as " a philosopher ," a number of works, some of which were probably by Pamphilus the grammarian.

In the manuscripts of Valerius a tenth book is given, which consists of the so-called Liber de Praenominibus, the work of some grammarian of a much later date.

For lack of further information, some scholars have tried to identify Abū ʾl-Kathīr with the Hebrew grammarian Abū ʿAlī Judah ben ʿAllān, likewise of Tiberias, who seems to have been a Karaite.

The identity of the oldest Arabic grammarian is disputed: some sources state that it was

The earliest account of associating the Meditrinalia with such a goddess was by 2nd century grammarian Sextus Pompeius Festus, on the basis of which she is asserted by modern sources to be the Roman goddess of health, longevity and wine, with an etymological meaning of " healer " suggested by some.

Only the Latin grammarian Priscian is better attested to with such handwritten copies, with some 900 remaining extant.

According to Fabricius, in some manuscripts the grammarian is styled not only vir clarissimus, the ordinary appellation of learned men at that period, but also quintus consularis quinque civitatem, indicating that he had achieved high office and imperial favour.

Another volume of Latin verse ( Antibossicon ad Gulielmum Hormannum, 1521 ) is directed against a rival schoolmaster and grammarian, Robert Whittington, who had " under the feigned name of Bossus, much provoked Lily with scoffs and biting verses.

Works by the grammarian Vacca and the poet Statius may support the claim that Lucan wrote insulting poems about Nero.

In about the 4th century BCE, the Vedic Sanskrit language was codified and standardized by the grammarian Panini, called " Classical Sanskrit " by convention.

Antimachus, of Colophon or Claros, Greek poet and grammarian, flourished about 400 BC.

Nothing is known about the life of Stephanus, except that he was a grammarian at Constantinople, and lived after the time of Arcadius and Honorius, and before that of Justinian II.

* Claudius Didymus, a Greek grammarian, who wrote about the mistakes of Thucydides relating to analogy, a separate work about analogy among the Romans, and an epitome of the works of Heracleon.

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

The last mention of Ælfric Abbot, probably the grammarian, is in a will dating from about 1010.

A grammarian describes the background of the play as follows: In 424 BC, Aristophanes produced The Knights, in which he described Cratinus " as a drivelling old man, wandering about with his crown withered, and so utterly neglected by his former admirers that he could not even procure to quench the thirst of which he was perishing " Soon after that play, Cratinus responded by producing a play called Pytine ( The Wineflask ) in 423 BC, which defeated the Connus of Ameipsias and The Clouds of Aristophanes, which was produced in the same year.

Euphorion, Greek poet and grammarian, born at Chalcis in Euboea about 275 BC.

Albert Sidney ( or Sydney ) Hornby, usually just A. S. Hornby, 1898 – 1978, was an English grammarian, lexicographer, and pioneer in the field of English language learning and teaching ( ELT ).

Lindley Murray ( 27 March 1745 – 16 February 1826 ), grammarian, was born in a house near his father's mill, just north of Harper Tavern in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, 18 miles northeast of Harrisburg.

The grammarian Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Nahhas ( d. 949 CE ) says expressly in his commentary on the Mu ' allaqat: " The true view of the matter is this: when Hammad Ar-Rawiya ( Hammad the Rhapsodist ) saw how little men cared for poetry, he collected these seven pieces, urged people to study them, and said to them: ' These are the of renown.

On Alcaeus (), and Summaries of the plots of Euripides and Sophocles (), but may have been the works of Dicaearchus, a grammarian of Lacedaemon, who, according to the Suda, was a disciple of Aristarchus, and seems to be alluded to in Apollonius.

As a comparative grammarian he was much more than as a Sanskrit scholar ,” and yet “ it is surely much that he made the grammar, formerly a maze of Indian subtilty, as simple and attractive as that of Greek or Latin, introduced the study of the easier works of Sanskrit literature and trained ( personally or by his books ) pupils who could advance far higher, invade even the most intricate parts of the literature and make the Vedas intelligible.

A critic, according to Crates, should investigate everything which could throw light upon literature ; the grammarian was only to apply the rules of language to clear up the meaning of particular passages, and to settle the text, prosody, accentuation, etc.

The 2nd century BC grammarian Agallis attributed the invention of ball games to Nausicaa, most likely because Nausicaa was the first person in literature to be described playing with a ball.

The 2nd-century grammarian Festus explains their name as the participle of the Latin verb nitor, niti, nixus, " to support oneself ," also " strive, labor ," in this sense " be in labor, give birth.

The earliest allusion to spoken Georgian may be a passage of the Roman grammarian Marcus Cornelius Fronto in the 2nd century AD: Fronto imagines the Iberians addressing the emperor Marcus Aurelius in their incomprehensible tongue.

The second work traditionally attributed to Alexander Numenius, titled On Show-Speeches (), is acknowledged by virtually all critics to not be the work of this Alexander, but of a later grammarian also named Alexander ; it is, to speak more correctly, made up very clumsily from two distinct works, one of which was written by one Alexander, and the other by Menander Rhetor.

* I wish to be a good grammarian.

Aelius Festus Aphthonius was a Latin grammarian of the 3rd or 4th century, possibly of African origin, and considered to be one of the most important classical rhetoricians.

Formerly assumed to be identical with the Alexandrian grammarian and lexicographer Didymus Chalcenterus, because Ptolemy and Porphyry referred to him as Didymus ho mousikos ( the musician ), classical scholars now believe that this Didymus was a younger grammarian and musician working in Rome at the time of Nero ( Richter 2001 ).

Some have thought that it might be the same person as the lesser-known grammarian Eutychius Proclus, who lived in the 2nd century CE, but it is quite possible that he is simply an otherwise unknown figure.

: For the 2nd century BC grammarian sometimes thought to be named Anagallis, see Agallis.

A work entitled On accents (), attributed to Arcadius but compiled by a later grammarian, Theodosius of Byzantium, seems to be an extract from Herodian's Prosody.

The poet and his grandson are praised by Sidonius Apollinaris, but the son may be the best candidate for the grammarian.

We are almost entirely dependent on a summary of the Cyclic epics contained in the Chrestomathy attributed to an unknown " Proclus " ( possibly to be identified with the 2nd-century AD grammarian Eutychius Proclus ).

Nevertheless, we are almost entirely dependent on a summary of the Cyclic epics contained in the Chrestomatheia ( see also chrestomathy ) attributed to an unknown " Proclus " ( possibly to be identified with the 2nd-century CE grammarian Eutychius Proclus ).

For its storyline we are almost entirely dependent on a summary of the Cyclic epics contained in the Chrestomathy written by an unknown " Proclus " ( possibly to be identified with the 2nd century CE grammarian Eutychius Proclus ).

For its storyline we are almost entirely dependent on a summary of the Cyclic epics contained in the Chrestomatheia ( see also chrestomathy ) attributed to an unknown " Proklos " ( possibly to be identified with the 2nd-century-CE grammarian Eutychios Proklos ).

For the content we are almost entirely dependent on a prose summary of the Cyclic epics contained in the Chrestomathy attributed to an unknown " Proclus " ( possibly to be identified with the 2nd-century CE grammarian Eutychius Proclus, or else with an otherwise unknown 5th-century grammarian ).