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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 314 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GRADUS, or GRADUS AD PARNASSUM (a step to Parnassus)  , a Latin (or Greek)
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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 verse composition . The first Latin gradus was compiled in 1702 by the Jesuit Paul Aler (1656–1727), a famous schoolmaster . There is a Latin gradus by C . D . Yonge (1850);
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English-Latin by A . C . Ainger and H . G . Wintle (1890); Greek by J . Brasse (1828) and E . Maltby (1815), bishop of Durham .

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