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Headword:
*)attikismo/s
Adler number: alpha,4360
Translated headword: Atticism
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] friendship and goodwill towards Attikoi [Athenians]; like Lakonism, [meaning] that towards Lakones [Spartans].[1]
Also[2] [sc. attested is the phrase] "in Attic letters":
Demosthenes [in the speech]
Against Neaira [uses the phrase] to mean ancient ones.[3] For the 24-letter alphabet was invented at some late date amongst the Ionians.[4]
*)attikismo/s: h( pro\s tou\s *)attikou\s oi)keio/ths kai\ eu)/noia: w(s *lakwnismo/s, h( pro\s tou\s *la/kwnas. kai\ *)attikoi=s gra/mmasi, *dhmosqe/nhs kata\ *neai/ras, a)nti\ tou= palaioi=s. th\n ga\r tw=n kd# stoixei/wn grammatikh\n o)ye/ pote para\ toi=s *)/iwsin eu(reqh=nai.
Notes:
[1] Again, in reverse, at
lambda 69.
[2] The source now becomes Harpokration s.v.
*)attikoi=s gra/mmasin (here abridged).
[3] [
Demosthenes] 59.76 (web address 1).
[4] And officially adopted by the Athenians in 403/2 BCE; see
sigma 77, and d'Angour (1999).
Armand J. d'Angour, "Archinos, Eukleides and the reform of the Athenian alphabet", Bulletin of the [London] Institute of Classical Studies 43 (1999) 109-130
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: chronology; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; history; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 October 2000@11:19:25.
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