AND BYZANTINE GREEK. 



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Byzantine period, the Greeks called themselves Romans, as has already been re- 

 marked."^ 



The authors of this epoch must be separated into modern Greek, and scholastic Greek. 

 The former wrote in the language of the common people ; the latter, in the artificial 

 Attic of the schools. Here follows a list of them. 



Theodonis Ptochoprodromus^^ 



Modern Greek. 

 1150 ± Bt/SXioi/ TTjs KovyKia-Tas rijs Vofiavias (cat toD 



Romaic, or Modern Greek, literally, the Roman language. In expressions like the following, P <a /n a 1 1 k a is 

 an adverb : Stpeis Poj/iaitxa ; Do you hioiv Romaic ? 'O/jiXaet Pw/iauKa, He speaks Romaic. 



'' See above, § 14. 



^ Theodorus Ptoehoprodromus is the eai-liest modem Greek writer of whom we have any definite accounts. 



His two modem Greek poems, entitled Srixot OeoSapov toC TlTaxoTrpoSponov npos rbv ^acnXea Kvpiov MavovfjK TOP 



Koftvr]v6i>, represent the popular dialect of the twelfth century. They are found in the first volume of Coray's 

 Atakta. 



^ It is a translation from the original French. See Buchon's preface to the edition of 1845. 



