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MEMOIRS 



AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



LIBKARY 



NEW YORK 

 SOTANJCAU 



A Glossary of Later and Byzantine Greek. riAXDEN 



Bt E. a. SOPHOCLES. 



Communicated October 12th, 1858. 



INTRODUCTION. 



UNIVERSALITY OF THE ATTIC DIALECT. 

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As early as the latter lialf of the fifth century before Christ, Athens was regarded as 

 the intellectual centre of Greece. Its dialect, in point of development and in richness 

 of literature, stood at the head of all the Greek dialects. The natural consequence 

 of this pre-eminence was that Greeks from all the tribes repaired thither to obtain a 

 finished education.' It is not necessary to our purpose to mention here any other 

 names than those of Ephorus of Jilolis, Aristotle of Stagira, Theopompus of Chios, 

 and Theophrastus of Lesbos. 



Now persons from whatever part of Greece educated at Athens would by preference 

 use the dialect of Athens. And it is not difficult to luiderstand that their example 

 would naturally be followed by their kinsmen, pujiils, friends, and dependents. Fur- 

 tlier, Athens was the great emporium of Greece.^ Of course all the dialects met at 



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