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PHILOLOGICAL

philologus (not philologicus: both in Latin and Greek characters in Cic.: according to Sen. a philosopher attends only to the meaning of writings the thoughts expressed; the philologus to the points of history antiquities etc. necessary for their elucidation; the grammaticus to the words. Suet. places the philologus above the grammaticus and litterator as a man qui multiplici variāque doctrinā censebatur). Philological matters enquiries points philologa nominative plur. (Cic. de philologis Att. 13 29 1): Others give *ad studium antiquitatis or humanitatis pertinens.

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