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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Greek grammarian who taught at Rhodes and Rome and wrote an influential synthesis of Greek grammar, the Art of Grammar.
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Examples
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Again, I knew an old gentleman who told me that, at a good English school in the early nineteenth century, he had been taught the principles of grammar out of a writer called Dionysius Thrax, or Denis of Thrace.
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R.H. Robins, “Dionysius Thrax and the Western Grammatical Tradition,” Transactions of the Philological Society (1957), 67-106.
STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968
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The accidence expounded by Dionysius Thrax is found practically unchanged in Apollonius Dyscolus, and was taken over almost completely by such Roman grammarians as Donatus and Priscianus.
STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968
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Decimus saluted again, and withdrew, while his superior opened the roll in his hands, and with all apparent fixity and interest studied at the precepts and definitions of the grammar of Dionysius Thrax, the noted philologist.
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903
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Since the days of Dionysius Thrax, it had probably never appeared so tedious, so intolerably tiresome, as she found it now, and she felt relieved, almost grateful when Mrs. Andrews sent for her to come to the library, where Dr. Howell was waiting to see her.
St. Elmo 1872
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Since the days of Dionysius Thrax, it had probably never appeared so tedious, so intolerably tiresome, as she found it now, and she felt relieved, almost grateful, when Mrs. Andrews sent for her to come to the library, where Dr. Howell was waiting to see her.
St. Elmo. A Novel. Augusta Jane 1867
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