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DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20335422

Greek Grammarian Anonymous Grammatical Fragment in Greek

The Grammatical Fragment is a lost treatise attributed to an anonymous Greek grammarian. No substantive content, specific rules, or illustrative examples from the work are preserved. Its title indicates it was a fragmentary text concerning grammatical subjects. As a grammatical treatise, its subject would have been the systematic analysis of the Greek language, potentially covering parts of speech, syntax, or prosody, consistent with the broader Hellenistic and Greco-Roman grammatical tradition. The work is listed in the Perseus Digital Library catalog, but no manuscript tradition, physical fragments, or quotations in other authors are recorded, with its survival limited to this bibliographic entry. The fragment’s existence underscores the volume of technical grammatical literature produced in antiquity that has not survived. Its complete loss precludes any specific assessment of its influence on later linguistic thought.

1 [Break in Text (point at which text breaks off for an unknown length)] [ ]αν[ ἐντὸς δυϊκαὶ] [καὶ ἐκτὸς ἑνι]καί, νωΐτερος, [σφωΐτερος, νωϊτέρα, σφωϊτέρα, νωΐτερον,] [σφωΐτερον.] [δύο μόνον πρόσω]πα, ἐπὶ τοῦ τρί[του προσώπου λείπει . ] [ ] . πληθυντικα[ί, νωΐτεροι, σφωΐτεροι,] [νωΐτε] [ραι, σφωΐτεραι,] νωΐτερα, σφω[ΐ]τερ[α ] [ ἐντὸς πλη]θυντικαὶ καὶ ἐκτ[ὸς ἑνικαί, ἡμέτερος, ὑμέτερος, σφέτερος] [ ]ς ἡμετέρα, ὑμε[τέρα, σφετέρα ] [ διαφ]έρουσαι δὲ ἐν τ[αῖς πτώσεσιν ] [ ἡμετέρ]ω, ὑμετέρω, σφ[ετέρω, ἡμετέρα, ὑμετέρα, σφετέρα ] [ ]ι . ἡμέτεροι, ὑμέ[τεροι, σφέτεροι θηλυ][κὰ καὶ οὐδέτερ]α καὶ ἐ〈πὶ〉 τούτων [ ] [ἑκάστη κατὰ πτ]ῶσιν κλίνεται [ ] [μετα? σχηματίζον]ται ⸐ πρ[όθεσις] [πρόθεσίς ἐστι] λέξις προτα[σσομένη τῶν τοῦ λόγου μερῶν. εἰσὶ δὲ αἱ] [πᾶσαι προθέσει]ς ιη , ἀνά , ἀμ[φί , ἀπό , ἀντί , διά , ἐν , ἐξ , εἰς , ἐπί , κατά , πρός ,] [ πρό , περί , παρά , μετ]ά , ὑπέρ , ὑπ[ό , σύν , ὧν δύο καὶ δέκα ἀναστρέφονται,] [οὐκ ἀναστρέφο]νται δὲ τῶν [προθέσεων τούτων αἱ μονοσύλλαβοι.] [εἰσὶ δὲ αὗται ἕξ,] ἐν , εἰς , ἐξ , [ σύν , πρό , πρός ] [ ]· [ ] [Break in Text (point at which text breaks off for an unknown length)]

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