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A GLOSSARY OF LATER 



'EfiitavovfiK rXvfdwof 

 Ma^ifios Mapyovvwi 



NiKoXaor ArjfiriTplov, author of a poeiu en- 

 titled Boa-KOTToiXa fj eilfi.op(j)rj 



'AyaTTios 6 K/jrjs 



'\pSpias TpaiXos, versifier 



Tewpytos Xoprdrfijt, author of an insipid 

 tragedy entitled 'Epa>(f>i\r] 



Mardmos 6 Mvpalav (bishop of Myra in 

 Lycia) 



Georgius Godinus 

 Georgius Scholarius 

 Michael Ducas Nepos 

 Chakocondyles or Chalcondyles 

 Georgius Phrantzes 

 Theodonis Gazes 

 Georgius Trapezimtius 



159G 'hX/us MrjviaTrjs, sermons 



1G01± MeXirios 6 ' Adi]vai>, geography and eccle- 



siastical history 

 1625 BtT^ivT^os 6 Kopvapos, author of EpaTonpt- 



1643-|- Tof, a poem not entirely destitute of 



1G47 merit 



Pijyas of BeXearlvos (the ancicnt Pherae), 

 167G versifier 



NiKi;0dpor 6 GforoKijs 

 1683 Evyeyios d BouXyapis 



Scholastic Greek. 



? 

 1459 

 1462 

 14G3+ 

 1477 

 1478 

 1486 



Constantinus Lascaris 



Arseniiis of Monembasia 



'AXe^avSpos 6 JilavpoKopbdros, author oi a 



work entitled TiepX KadijKovTmv {De 



Officiis) 



Oe6(f>t\os 6 Kopvbahfvs 



1714 



1728 



1737+ 



1798 

 1800 

 180G 



1494+ 

 1535 



1719 

 1744 



§ 22. 



It is often asserted that modem Greek is identical with ancient Greek, mutatis 



mutandis.^^ This assertion is usually made by those who are acquainted with the 



spoken and written language of the present day, but are not deeply versed in ancient 



Greek. On the other hand, those who have read the earlier Greek authors, but are 



^^ We may be allowed to state here that, in the latter part of the eighteenth century, Ilgen, of the Univer- 

 sity of Jena, in his preface to the Homeric Hymns, maintained that the popular modem Greek was the same 

 as the language of the rustics of ancient Greece, and fortified his position by instancing such forms as SS, Kp'i, 

 SK^i, Tp6(j)t, Kapr], ?X ; just as if these words belonged to the Romaic. Athanasios Khrist6pulo.s, a modern Greek 

 poet of considerable merit, confounding, it would seem, the iEolians and Dorians with Ilgen's rustics, asserted 

 that the modern language was neither more nor less than a slight modification of the ancient iEolic and Doric. 

 And in the early part of the present century he published a gi-ammar entitled rpappaTiKfj t^? AloXoSapiKijt, ijroL 

 TTjs opiKovnivT)! Tapivns rav 'EXK^vav yXoxraas. Coray modified the German professor's assertion by asserting 

 that the popular dialect of the first four centuries of the Christian era was essentially the same as that of the 

 twelfth century, which was essentially modern Greek. (Corat's Atakta, Vol. II, tff seq.) 



We have already given specimens of the popular dialect of the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries (§ 16). 

 As to Ilgen's rustics, Philostratus informs us that, in his time, that is, in the third century, the inhabitants of 

 the interior of Attica spoke purer Greek than those who resided in the capital. Philostr. Vit. Soph. 2, 1, 7 



'H jxctroyeia, ecprj, t^s 'Attik?)! ayaBov StSao-KaXfTov avhp\ ^ovXapeva BiaXiyecrdai, K. T. X. Ibid. 2, 31 AlXtavos 6e Pu- 

 Haiot piv rjv, ijTTUt^e Si Sicnep ol ev rfi pcdoyda ^AOrjvaioi.. 



