10 A GLOSSARY OF LATER 



acquainted with it.'^' In fact, it was "a sort of universal language, and consequently 

 a medium of 'communication.- It may not be unimportant to observe here thnt 

 most of the writers of the Roman period were colonial Greeks, and many of them 

 were not even of Greek descent.^' 



' § 11- 



In the second century of our era the language had deviated perceptibly from the 

 ancient standard. . Old words and expressions had disappeared, and new ones succeeded 

 them. In addition to this, new meanings were put upon old words. The syntax, 

 moreover, was undergoing some changes. The purists of the day made an effort to 

 check this. tendency, but they were steadily opposed by usage, and not unfrequently by 

 good sense.^' Those sfelf-constituted guardians of the honor of the ancient Attic may 

 be divided into two classes ; the grammarians (as Phrynichus and Mocris), on the one 

 hand, and the literary exquisites, on the other. The former took it upon themselves 

 to annihilate every word and phrase that had not the good fortune to be under the 

 special protection of a Thucydides or a Plato. "You must not use this Avord," they 

 would say, " because it is not found in any ancient author. This is a good word, 



Batiiiis,>v(?Ufcmenter -errat : propterea quod-Graeca leguutur iu omnibus fere regionibjis, Latina suis flnibus, 

 exiguis sane continentur. Senec. Consol. ad Hclv. 6, 8 Quid sibi voliiiit in mudiis barbarorum regiouibus 

 GrFaeoae ui-bes ? Quis inter _IndoS Persasquc Macedonicus serrao? Juven. l."*, 110 Nunc totus Graias 

 jiostrasque habet orbi?-Atl»enas. 



"* QuiXTiL. 1, 1, J2 A Graeeo sei-mone pueruni incipere malo. Juven. G,18-i Nam quid rancidius quam 

 qiiod se non pntat ulla Formosam, nisi quae de Tusca Graecula facta est, De Sulmpnensi inera Cecrapis ? 

 omnia Gi-aece,'Cimi sit turpe magis nostris n.escire Latine, etc. Sueton. Claud. 42 Npc minora ctira'Graeca 

 stttdia sccutus est, amorem praestantiamque linguae occasione omni professus. 



Maiius despised Greek as the language of a conquered nation. Plut. I, 406 F. 



Cotnpare NT. Act. 21, 37 McAXibi» « da-ayecrBai ds ttjv Trapf/i/SoX^v o IIai)Xoj Xeyft to xiKiafi^ca, d c^cctti' /ioi 

 elne'iv ti jrpos v&s"^ O 8s ?<}>i, 'EXXjji/io-ti yivaxTRas ; 



" Compare Plut. II, 413 F T^s Koivrjs o\iyav8plas, ijv al npoTepai aratreis Kai ol noKepoi nep't nacrap o/iov ti rrjv 

 oiKOvpevrjv aireLpyaaavro, ttXcicttoi' pepos rj 'EXXas pcre'crxiKf^ koI /idXts av vvv o\rj napdo'xoi TpurxtXlovs OTrXiVaf. PaUS. 

 7, 1/, 1 Ei9 aurav 6c auBeviins Tore paXtcrra KaTfjXBei/ i/ 'EXXay Xvpavdeta'a Kara pipt) Koi BiaiTop6rj6et(ra e'^ "PXV^ ^° ^"^ 

 8aipovoS' 



'' Sext. Adv. Gram. 10, p. 237 AelneTai oSv rfj TTCLVTav avvriBeia irpoaix^iv d 8« rotTo, ov x/)"" t^s avoKoylas., 

 oKKa 7raparr)pq(r€(as tov ttSjs ol jroXXoi 8ta\eyoi/T(it koi ttcoj KWrjuiKor TrapaBexoirrai tj ws ov roiovrov tKK\iifov(Ti. Ibid, 

 p. 264 IloXXai yap (paaiV fieri crVfrjBfiai, Ka'i aWri piv 'A6rjval<ov, aXXi; 6e AftufSatpovioiv • Kai TraXtv 'A6rjvaia>v Si.a(j>(povcra 

 pev rj iraXaia, i^rfKKaypevrj 8e t] vi>v, KaX oix V airfi piv rwv Kara ttjv dypoiKiai/, rj air!) d( Twv iv a(jT(L hiarpi^ovTav • napo 

 Koi 6 KmpiKoi Xe'yfi ' Api<TTO(pavr]S, AiaXiKTOv (xovra piarfv TrdXewf, Oi/V adTfiav {nrudrjKvTepav, OvT dveXeidepov inaypof 



KOTfpaV. 



