Even in the 5th century B. Of many of these perhaps even the names have perished; but Athenaeus the grammarian alone c. Among the earliest was Philetas of Cos d. Next came his disciple Zenodotus of Ephesus c. Contemporary with the last named was Crates of Mallus, who, besides making some new contributions to Greek lexicography and dialectology, was the first to create at Rome a taste for similar investigations in connexion with the Latin idioms. To the 4th century belongs Ammonius of Alexandria c.
The works of Photius, Suidas and Zonaras, as also the Etymologicum magnum , to which might be added the Lexica Sangermania and the Lexica Segueriana , are referred to in the article Dictionary.
To a special category of technical glossaries belongs a large and important class of works relating to the law-compilations of Justinian. Deo Auctore , sec.
Tanta , sec. In Italy also, during the period of the Byzantine ascendancy, various glossae glosae and scholia on the Justinian code were produced 4 ; particularly the Turin gloss reprinted by Savigny , to which, apart from later additions, a date prior to is usually assigned. After the total extinction of the Byzantine authority in the West the study of law became one of the free arts, and numerous schools for its cultivation were instituted.
Among the earliest of these was that of Bologna, where Pepo and Irnerius began to give their expositions. In late classical and medieval Latin, glosa was the vulgar and romanic e. The diminutive glossula occurs in Diom. The same meaning has glossarium Gell. Glossa and glossema Varro vii. De gramm. Latin, like Greek glossography, had its origin chiefly in the practical wants of students and teachers, of whose names we only know a few.
