Henr. Stephani Dialogus de bene instituendis Graecae linguae studiis

DE BENE INSTIT. L. GR. ST.

by him? PH. Is no mention made of these grammarians by others? COR. Eustathius (if I remember well) is one of those who make mention of them. PH. Do you not remember having read that σχέδος or σχεδογραφεῖν elsewhere? COR. Not at all. And I am indeed surprised that σχεδογραφεῖν is said of the student himself, when it seems it should be said of the teacher. Unless perhaps, when that is said, it looks to the student who would write under the teacher certain things pertaining to these σχέδη drafts, whether the teacher dictated them, or the student, having heard them and committed them to memory, later committed them to writing. PH. Are the things proposed by Moschopoulos to be examined also prayers, or little prayers, and do they close equally with an iambic senarius? COR. By no means; but their subjects are various. Nor do they close with a senarius verse, which I had not noticed here either; but I certainly see that about these words:
Καὶ τὼ καταρχὴν δλόγησον τῶ χέδοις And instruct the beginner in the drafts,
it cannot be denied: whether they were restricted to numbers by Moschopoulos on purpose, or if the numbers crept into them by chance. PH. Do you approve of the method of examining that follows? COR. In part I approve, in part I disapprove. For some useless questions are proposed; but others, if not entirely useless, are such that much more useful ones could have been proposed. Among these, perhaps, we should place that one to which he gives the first place everywhere, concerning the number of parts of speech, which is formed from these or those words. For example, when the first words of that little prayer are these: Κύριε, Ἰησοῦ Χριστὲ, ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, ὁ ἀπόρως εὐδοκήσας τεχθῆναι ἐκ τῆς ἁγίας Θεοτόκου καὶ ἀειπαρθένε Μαρίας Lord, Jesus Christ, our God, who graciously deigned to be born of the holy Theotokos and ever-virgin Mary, first indeed it is asked concerning these, "Lord, Jesus Christ, our God," how many parts of speech they are; and it is answered that they are three. For all nouns which are read in one member of a sentence or even one