grammaticus: Difference between revisions

{{Lewis

|lshtext=<b>grammătĭcus</b>: a, um, adj., = [[γραμματικός]],<br /><b>I</b> of or belonging to [[grammar]], grammatical: ars, Auct. Her. 4, 12, 17; Quint. 1, 5, 54: possis illud grammaticum, hoc rhetoricum [[magis]] dicere, id. 9, 3, 2: grammaticas ambire [[tribus]] et pulpita, the tribes of the grammarians, Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 40: cum eundem (Tuditanum) de rebus grammaticis scripsisse constet, Varr. L. L. 6, § 36 Müll.—<br /><b>II</b> Subst.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> grammătĭcus, i, m., a [[grammarian]] in the [[more]] extended [[sense]] of the [[word]], a philologist: [[appellatio]] grammaticorum Graeca consuetudine invaluit: sed [[initio]] litterati vocabantur. [[Cornelius]] [[quoque]] [[Nepos]] litteratos [[vulgo]] appellari ait eos, qui aliquid [[diligenter]] et [[acute]] scienterque possint aut dicere aut scribere: [[ceterum]] [[proprie]] sic appellandos poëtarum interpretes, qui a Graecis γραμματικοι nominentur ... Veteres grammatici et rhetoricam docebant, etc., Suet. Gramm. 4: ut si grammaticum se [[professus]] [[quispiam]] [[barbare]] loquatur, Cic. Tusc. 2, 4, 12; cf.: grammatici custodes Latini sermonis, Sen. Ep. 95 med.: grammatici poëtarum explanatores sunt, Cic. Div. 1, 51, 116; id. Att. 7, 3, 10: hanc ὑπαλλαγὴν rhetores, μετωνυμίαν grammatici vocant, id. Or. 27, 93; Quint. 10, 1, 53; 1, 8, 21; cf. in the foll. the [[passage]] Quint. 2, 1, 4, and Cic. de Or. 1, 42, 187: (Ateius) [[inter]] grammaticos [[rhetor]], [[inter]] rhetores [[grammaticus]], Suet. Gramm. 10.—Prov.: grammatici certant, doctors [[disagree]], Hor. A. P. 78.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> grammătĭca, ae, and gram-mătĭce, ēs (the [[first]] form in [[Cicero]] and Suet., the [[latter]] in Quint.), f., = γραμματική, [[grammar]] in the wider [[sense]] of the [[term]], philology: [[quamquam]] ea verba, quibus instituto veterum utimur pro Latinis, ut ipsa [[philosophia]], ut [[rhetorica]], [[dialectica]], [[grammatica]], [[geometria]], [[musica]], [[quamquam]] Latine ea dici poterant, [[tamen]], [[quoniam]] usu [[percepta]] sunt, nostra ducamus, Cic. Fin. 3, 2, 5; id. de Or. 1, 42, 187; cf.: et [[grammatice]] ([[quam]] in Latinum transferentes litteraturam vocaverunt) fines suos norit, [[praesertim]] [[tantum]] ab hac appellationis suae paupertate, [[intra]] [[quam]] primi [[illi]] constitere, provecta: nam [[tenuis]] a fonte, assumptis poëtarum historicorumque viribus, pleno jam [[satis]] alveo fluit, cum [[praeter]] rationem recte loquendi non [[parum]] [[alioqui]] copiosam [[prope]] omnium maximarum artium scientiam amplexa [[sit]], Quint. 2, 1, 4; cf. id. 2, 14, 3: [[grammatica]], Suet. Gramm. 1; 2; 3; 6; 8; 24 et saep.: [[grammatice]], Quint. 1, 4, 2 sq.; 1, 5, 1; 1, 8, 12; 1, 10, 17 et saep.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> grammătĭca, ōrum, n., [[grammar]], philology: in grammaticis poëtarum [[pertractatio]], historiarum [[cognitio]], verborum [[interpretatio]], pronuntiandi [[quidam]] [[sonus]], Cic. de Or. 1, 42, 187.—Adv.: grammă-tĭce, according to the rules of [[grammar]], grammatically: mihi non [[invenuste]] dici videtur, aliud esse Latine, aliud [[grammatice]] loqui, Quint. 1, 6, 27.<br /><b>grammătĭcus</b>: i, v. 1. [[grammaticus]], II. A.

}}