George Choeroboscus, Quantity 299.16-21
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Context
George Choeroboscus (“Swineherd”), whose posthumous reputation may
have suffered from an association with iconoclasm, was a ranking official and teacher in
the Patriarchate of Constantinople during the early 9th century. He played an important
part in the transmission of ancient grammatical research to Byzantine scholarship. One
work surviving in an 11th-century codex from Venice at Oxford has been attributed to
Choeroboscus by the original editor, J. A. Cramer (1835). Although the text does not
name the author, the style and contents, concerning the quantity of vowels and
syllables, certainly fit the world of Middle Byzantine grammatical thought in which
Choeroboscus was a leading figure. In this passage, the author cites the toponym
Kaisareia as an example of a feminine noun with the diphthong
-ei(a) in the ending.
Text
ΠΕΡΙ ΘΗΛΥΚΩΝ. Τὰ ἀπὸ τῶν εἰς -ευς διὰ τοῦ -εια ἐπὶ πόλεων παρηγμένα
θηλυκὰ δίφθογγον ἔχει· ἐπὶ δὲ χώρας διὰ τοῦ ι· οἷον, Ἀλεξανδρεύς, Ἀλεξάνδρεια· Ἀπαμεύς,
Ἀπάμεια· Καισαρεύς, Καισάρεια· ἐπὶ δὲ χώρας· οἷον, Λυκία·
Πισιδία· Κιλικία· Σικελία· Παφλαγονία.1
Textual Note
Ed. Cramer 1835Textual Note
Codex Baroccianus 50 (Bodleian, 11th century)Translation
WORDS IN FEMININE GENDER. Words in feminine gender from words in
-eus (that are) formed with -eia in (the names
for) cities have a diphthong; in (the names for) regions, (they are formed) with iota:
e.g., Alexandreus, Alexandreia; Apameus, Apameia; Kaisareus,
Kaisareia
; and for regions: e.g., Lykia,
Pisidia, Kilikia, Sikelia, Paphlagonia.
Translation Note
Trans. J. L. RifeWorks Cited
- 1 [George Choeroboscus], Περὶ ποσότητος, in Anecdota Graeca e codd. manuscriptis bibliothecarum Oxoniensium, ed. John Anthony Cramer, repr. Amsterdam: A. M. Hakkert 1963, vol. 2, 4 vols. (Oxford: E Typographeo Academico, 1835), 283–318, p: 299, line: 16-21.
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Joseph L. Rife, “George Choeroboscus, Quantity 299.16-21,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published June 30, 2023, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/482.
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Entry Title: George Choeroboscus, Quantity 299.16-21
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