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The grammarian James Harris, a friend of Handel, directed concerts at the Assembly Rooms for almost 50 years up to his death in 1780, with many of the most famous musicians and singers of the day performing there.
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The son of the grammarian and politician James Harris, he served as Ambassador to Spain, Prussia, Russia and France and also represented Christchurch in the House of Commons.
* James Harris ( grammarian ) ( 1709 – 1780 ), English politician and grammarian
James Harris, FRS ( 24 July 1709 – 22 December 1780 ) was an English politician and grammarian.
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* Sulpicius Apollinaris, a grammarian, and a friend and contemporary of Aulus Gellius during the later 2nd century.
Rhianus ( Greek: Ῥιανὸς ὁ Κρής ) was a Greek poet and grammarian, a native of Crete, friend and contemporary of Eratosthenes ( 275 BC-195 BC ).
* Aurelius Opilius, a freedman who became a philosopher, rhetorician, and grammarian, and a friend of Publius Rutilius Rufus, whom he accompanied into exile at Smyrna.
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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.
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Of his brothers, Dioscorus followed his father's profession in Tralles ; Alexander became at Rome one of the most celebrated medical men of his time ; Olympius was deeply versed in Roman jurisprudence ; and Metrodorus was a distinguished grammarian in Constantinople.
* De triumphis ecclesiae, a Latin epic in elegiac metre, written c. 1250 by Johannes de Garlandia, an English grammarian who taught at the universities of Toulouse and Paris.
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.
* Callimachus of Cyrene, learned poet and grammarian, becomes chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria.
* Aristophanes of Byzantium, Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, becomes the chief librarian at Alexandria.
* Ptolemy II enlarges the library at Alexandria and appoints the grammarian Zenodotus to collect and edit all the Greek poets.
Marcus Cornelius Fronto ( c. 100 – 170 ), Roman grammarian, rhetorician and advocate, was born at Cirta in Numidia.
Constantine Lascaris ( 1434 – 15 August 1501 ) was a Greek scholar and grammarian, one of the promoters of the revival of Greek learning in the Italian peninsula, born at Constantinople.
Apion ( 20s BC-c. 45-48 AD ), Graeco-Egyptian grammarian, sophist and commentator on Homer, was born at the Siwa Oasis, and flourished in the first half of the 1st century AD.
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.
Nicander of Colophon ( Νίκανδρος ὁ Κολοφώνιος, 2nd century BC ), Greek poet, physician and grammarian, was born at Claros, ( Ahmetbeyli, Izmir in modern Turkey ), near Colophon, where his family held the hereditary priesthood of Apollo.
Maximus Planudes, less often Maximos Planoudes (, c. 1260-c. 1305 ) was a Greek monk, scholar, anthologist, translator, grammarian and theologian at Constantinople.
Moschus (), ancient Greek bucolic poet and student of the Alexandrian grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace, was born at Syracuse and flourished about 150 BC.
* Gavius Bassus, Latin grammarian at time of Cicero
Terentianus, surnamed Maurus ( a native of Mauretania ) was Latin grammarian and writer on prosody who flourished probably at the end of the 2nd century AD.
* Julius Pollux, a Greek sophist and grammarian, and a teacher of grammar and rhetoric at Athens during the reign of Commodus.
John Tzetzes () ( c. 1110, Constantinople – 1180, Constantinople ) was a Byzantine poet and grammarian, known to have lived at Constantinople during the 12th century.
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 ).
A calendar, which according to Suetonius was set up by the grammarian Marcus Verrius Flaccus in the imperial forum of Praeneste ( at the Madonna dell ' Aquila ), was discovered in 1771 in the ruins of the church of Saint Agapitus, where it had been used as building material.
Here he formed a strong friendship with Henry of Babenberg, brother of Bishop Poppo of Würzburg, whom he followed to Würzburg in order to attend the lectures of the noted Italian grammarian, Stephen of Novara, at the cathedral school.
The Hebrew translation was made by Abraham ben Hasdai at the request of the grammarian David Kimhi.
Maurya, the author of Mayurashataka, and Bhartrihari, the author of Vakyapadiya and a grammarian, also lived at the court of Harsha.
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* 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.
The grammarian Athenaeus quoted some verses about perfumed ointments to prove just how unwarlike Alcaeus could be and he quoted his description of the armour adorning the walls of his house as proof that he could be unusually warlike for a lyric poet.
** Aristophanes of Byzantium, Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, particularly renowned for his work in Homeric scholarship, but also for work on other classical authors such as Pindar and Hesiod.
* Aristophanes of Byzantium, Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, particularly renowned for his work in Homeric scholarship, but also for work on other classical authors such as Pindar and Hesiod.
He engaged the services of the distinguished grammarian and courtier Claude Favre de Vaugelas as tutor for his children.
He engaged the services of the distinguished grammarian and courtier Claude Favre de Vaugelas as tutor for his children.
According to grammarian Servius, Picus's love for Pomona was itself scorned.
The gap indicates a corruption in the text and the original wording probably testified to two books, though the only source we have for this number was the grammarian Pomponius Porphyrion.
The grammarian Festus says that it was named for a Cispius Laevus of Anagnia, of the Publilia voting tribe ( tribus ).
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 ).
Aeschylus calls the Nile Ogygian, and Eustathius the Byzantine grammarian said that Ogygia was the earliest name for Egypt.
a quarter for every scholar being a grammarian, and 8d.
for everyone inferior to a grammarian ; but he might take other private pupils.
His vocalization of the Bible is still, for all intents and purposes, the text all Jews continue to use, and he was the first systematic Hebrew grammarian.
The Spanish grammarian Nebrija appointed the word for the first time in his Latin Dictionary Nebrija-Spanish ( 1492 ) as: alfaxor or alaxur.
Aristophanes ( Greek: ) of Byzantium ( c. 257 BC – c. 185 – 180 BC ) was a Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, particularly renowned for his work in Homeric scholarship, but also for work on other classical authors such as Pindar and Hesiod.
Dhatu Ratnakara Campu ( 1889 – 1893 ) is a campu cavya with the story of Ramayana illustrating the use of verbal forms for the roots given by Pāṇini, the Sanskrit grammarian.
Of Telesilla's poems only two lines remain, quoted by the grammarian Hephaestion, apparently from a partheneion, or song for a chorus of maidens.
: See Chaeremon of Alexandria for the Stoic philosopher and grammarian.
The Gentoo Code is a legal code translated from Sanskrit ( in which it was known as ) to Persian by Brahmin scholars and then from Persian to English by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, a British grammarian working for the East India Company.
The poet and his grandson are praised by Sidonius Apollinaris, but the son may be the best candidate for the grammarian.
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