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See also:GRADUS, or GRADUS AD PARNASSUM (a step to See also:Parnassus) , a Latin (or See also:Greek) See also:dictionary, in which the quantities of the vowels of the words are marked . Synonyms, epithets and poetical expressions and extracts are also included under the more important headings, the whole being intended as an aid for students in Greek and Latin See also:verse See also:composition . The first Latin See also:gradus was compiled in 1702 by the Jesuit See also:Paul Aler (1656–1727), a famous schoolmaster . There is a Latin gradus by C . D . See also:Yonge (1850); See also:English-Latin by A . C . See also:Ainger and H . G . Wintle (1890); Greek by J . Brasse (1828) and E . Maltby (1815), See also:bishop of See also:Durham .
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