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8" THE CORPUS, EPINAL, ERFURT AND LEYDEN GLOSSARIES
nowadays by the unwieldy title Hermeneumata pseudo-Dositheana.
This schoolbook had an extraordinary success. It was
used, and continued in use, in all Latin-speaking parts of the
Roman Empire by pupils who wished to learn Greek. In the
West, Greek was in the seventh century and later almost con-
fined to Ireland, and wherever Greek was taught at a Continental
monastery, we expect to find an Irish teacher (e.g. at Laon,
Martin 'the Irishman' in the ninth century). Englishmen who
went to Ireland to learn Greek would, we may presume, use
some class-book of the Hermeneumata type. To anyone who
will glance through the pages of C. G. L. ill this type will be
clear, or rather types. For there are more than one. Sometimes
(after a few introductory remarks) lists of Greek words with their
Latin equivalents are marshalled in groups, the Greek being often
written in Latin characters, e.g.:
and so on; or:
and so on; or:
Uepl SevSpcov
(or Peri dendron Graece)
acyeipo^ (or egirus)
De arboribus
alnus
(f)i\vpa (or filira) tilia,
Uepl Xa'x^avcov
(or Peri lacanon Graece)
TreiTwv (or pepo)
Tlepl yeoipyiaf;
(or Peri gorgias)
KYjiTO'} (or cepus)
De holeribus
cucumis,
De agricultura
hortus
aTCL'xy'i (or stacis) spica
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