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GEORGIUS See also:CHOEROBOSCUS (c. A.D. 600) , See also:deacon and See also:professor at the See also:oecumenical school at See also:Constantinople . He is also called chartophylax either as the holder of some ecclesiastical See also:office or as See also:superintendent of the university library . It is not known whether " See also:Choeroboscus " (Gr. for ` swineherd ") is an allusion to his earlier occupation or an inherited See also:family name . During his See also:tenure of office he delivered a course of lectures on See also:grammar, which has come down to us in the shape of notes taken by his pupils . He See also:drew from the best authorities—See also:Apollonius Dyscolus, Herodian, See also:Orion, See also:Theodosius of See also:Alexandria . The lectures are written in See also:simple See also:style, but suffer from diffuseness . They were much used by See also:Constantine See also:Lascaris in his See also:Greek grammar and by See also:Urban of See also:Belluno (end of 15th cent.) . The See also:chief See also:work of Choeroboscus, which we have in its See also:complete See also:form, is the commentary on the canons of Theodosius on Declension and Conjugation . Mention may also be made of a See also:treatise on See also:orthography, of which a fragment (on Quantity) has been preserved; a See also:tract on See also:prosody; commentaries on See also:Hephaestion and See also:Dionysius Thrax; and grammatical notes on the See also:Psalms . See C . See also:Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897) ; A . Hilgard, Grammatzici Graeci, iv . (1889-1894), containing the See also:text of the commentary on Theodosius, and a full See also:account of the See also:life and. writings of Choeroboscus; L . Kohn in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopadie, iii . 2 (1889); Reitzenstein, Etymologika, 190, n . 4 . |
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