philologians

• Some men are born philologians, loving words for their own sake,--men to whom the devious paths of language are open highways; who, as Lord Bacon says, "have come forth from the second general curse, which was the confusion of tongues, by the art of grammar." —  Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology
• He was in constant correspondence with the most eminent and learned philologians of his time. —  Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men
• The emperor took a keen interest in all studies; he encouraged not merely poets but philologians and scientific writers, and he was not indisposed to protect historical study, if only it were treated in the way he approved. —  The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
• [75] Such as _Latium_ from _latere_, (Aen.viii. 322), and others, some of which may be from Varro or other philologians. —  The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
• I realised that if philologians have disputed as to how far Catullus 'poem of the girl's grief over the dead sparrow were jest or earnest, it was because they had never seen a girl weep over a bird. —  Recollections of My Childhood and Youth

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