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AELIUS HERODIANUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 381 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HERODIANUS  , called b rexvcxos, Alexandrian grammarian, flourished in the 2nd See also:century A.D . He See also:early took up his See also:residence at See also:Rome, where he enjoyed the patronage of See also:Marcus Aurelius (161-18o), to whom he dedicated his See also:great See also:treatise on See also:prosody . This See also:work in twenty-one books (KaDoXLKij irpovw, Sia) included also an See also:account of the etymological See also:part of See also:grammar . The work itself is lost, but several epitomes of it have been preserved . His 'E1rcµepco•pot dealt with difficult words and See also:peculiar forms in See also:Homer . See also:Herodianus also wrote numerous grammatical See also:treatises, of which only one has come down to us in a See also:complete See also:form (Hepi µovijpovs M sws, on peculiar See also:style), articles on exceptional or anomalous words . Numerous quotations and fragments still exist, chiefly in the Homeric scholiasts and Stephanus of See also:Byzantium . Herodianus enjoyed a great reputation as a grammarian, and See also:Priscian styles him " See also:maximus auctor artis grammaticae." The best edition is by A . Lentz, Herodiani . Technici religuiae (1867–1870) ; a supplementary See also:volume is included in Uhling's Corpus grammaticorum Graecorum; for further See also:bibliographical See also:information see W . See also:Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Littratur (1898) .

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