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Philistine

Philistine: Philisthaeus: Vulg. 1 Reg. xvii. 8, sqq.: pl. Philistīni, orum; ib. v. 4. In fig. sense, Philistinus (quem dicunt Teutonici).

/* philologer } philologist } */

1. phĭlŏlŏgus (a man of extensive erudition, multiplici variaque doctrina, Suet. Gr. 10): Sen. Ep. 108. 29 (where it denotes knowledge of the subject matter of a historical work). (N.B.--Though not used in exactly the modern sense by classical writers, it is perfectly legitimate so to use the word, for the sake of brevity. Also perh. philologicus, acc. to analogy of historicus, geometricus.)

2. grammătĭcus: cf. Cic. Div. 1, 51, 116, grammatici poetarum explanatores sunt; also, Suet. Gr. 4, init.: v. GRAMMARIAN.

3. expr. by circuml., *antiquarum litterarum, doctae s. eruditae antiquitatis studiosus, peritus, Kr.; *in re philologica multum versatus.

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