Byzantine Teaching Miscellany

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original: "Πίναξ"

Exhortations of Pythagoras; the beginning: More than nothing original: "Μηδενὸς μᾶλλον" illegible? 1

Of Isocrates? and other maxims; the beginning: For every man original: "Πᾶς γὰρ ἀνήρ". 5

Collection of Attic words arranged alphabetically Attic was the prestige dialect of ancient Athens; "by letter" indicates an alphabetical arrangement; the beginning: Immediately instead of more quickly original: "Αὐτικῶν ἀντὶ τοῦ θᾶττον". 12

Collection on rhetoric; the beginning: A myth is original: "Μῦθός ἐστι". 64

1 Of Armenopoulos Likely Konstantinos Armenopoulos, a 14th-century Byzantine jurist, written as if commanded by a youth, a petition 77

On various words with technical grammatical analysis, in which there is also a section on solecisms A solecism is a grammatical mistake in the construction of a sentence; the beginning: I rejoice in all things original: "ἀγαλλῶ πᾶσι μὲν" 81

On barbarism An error in the form of a single word, as opposed to a solecism; the beginning: Agathodaemon Literally "Good Spirit," here used as a name or a reference term 87

On solecisms; the beginning: It is of the Attics original: "τῶν ἀττικῶν ἐστι". 92

Meanings of words; the beginning: Having the appearance of Agathodaemon 97

Another distinction of words; the beginning: Aga- The entry cuts off mid-word 112