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PREFACE TO THE GLOSSARY. 



The Glossarium Graecoharharum of Meursius, the earliest glossaiy of the kind, was 

 published in the year 1614.* It contains a limited number of words of later, medige- 

 val, and modern origin. 



Ducange's Glossary of Medmval and Modern Greek, a work of immense labor, ap- 

 peared in 1688.t It contains a large number of words, but the author throws his chief 

 strength upon the foreign element of the language. The citations are numerous, but 

 unfortunately they are full of typographical errors. As scientific lexicography had no 

 existence in the age of Ducange, it is not surprising that his meanings, as also his au- 

 thorities, should be arranged without regard to logic or to chronology. Further, the 

 author was but imperfectly acquainted with modem Greek, and consequently his defi- 

 nitions of words peculiar to that language are not unfi-equently erroneous. Sometimes 

 mistakes in copying, or in printing, are amusingly converted into Greek words. % 



Suicer's Thesaurus Ecclesiastmis § is, as its title indicates, confined to the language 



* JoANNis Meuesii Glossarium Graecobarbarum. Lugduni Batavorum. MDCXIV. 

 t Glossai-ium ad Scriptores Mediae et Iiiiimae Graecitatis .... auctore Caeolo Du Fresne Domino Du 

 Cange. Lugduni. MDCLXXXVXQ. 



X We give tlie following specimens: 'Kyylbes, Vascula, S.yyTj. Agapius in Geoponico cap. 174 'Hns dvai 



XOpTOV yefiaTO ayyldcs \e7TTais, CtC. Adde Cap. 190. [For vascula, ayyq, read assulae, ScMdiae, <TXi-vba\iio'i., crxiv- 



'AarrjXat, AsteWa sive AstiUa, Hes. ^epjiia, as i'vioi darrjXas ras ck axoivlav WXeKoiuvas. Anonymus de Bellis 

 Peloponnesiacis : 



"Oti ris TO 'ApaK\o^ou 'dvei KoXes ytaripvais, 

 I Kat doTtXi va tov doxrovo'tf ck tov vepbu cKfivo. 



Vide Gloss. Med. Lat. in Astilla. [The verses quoted by Ducange are found in the Conquest. In Buchon's 

 edition of that poem, they are written as follows (G867 - 8) : 



Tov fmfv (Is TO ' ApaxXofiov eivt KoSals yrjtTripvais, 

 Kai as <TT€i\7] va tov daxrwaiv €K to vepbv tKt'ivo. 



Here uj oTeiX.i;, incorrectly written da-riXi, let him send, was imagined to be a neuter substantive connected with 



doT^Xai.] 



§ Jon. Caspaei Suiceri .... Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus e Patribus Graecis Editio secunda. Am- ' 



stelodami. 1728. 



