Grecist

English Alternative forms en Graecist Græcist Etymology From en fr gréciste, from en la-new Graecista, from en la-cla graecus + la -ista. Pronunciation en /ˈɡɹiːsɪst/ en 1 Noun en archaic or nonstandard _ historical Someone learned in Greek studies. en Hellenist Greek scholar en 1863 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 93 No. 572, June 783a https://www.google.de/books/edition/Blackwood_s_Edinburgh_Magazine/1WhHAQAAMAAJ?hl=de&gbpv=1&dq=%22Gr%C3%A6cists%22&pg=PA738&printsec=frontcover They were generally accepted as the foremost Græcists in England and they seized an early opportunity after the Continent was reopened of evincing their desire to be on good terms with the scholars of Germany. en 1872 136 No. 277, July The Edinburgh Review 87a https://www.google.de/books/edition/The_Edinburgh_Review/tADSAAAAMAAJ?hl=de&gbpv=1&dq=%22Grecists%22&pg=PA67&printsec=frontcover If his desire to patronise the best possible Latin version of Thucydides made Nicholas V blind to Valla's disqualifications as an ornament of the Papal Court, so the desire of securing the best possible Latin version of Homer induced him to invite Francesco Filelfo, a still more discreditable specimen of Humanist morals, but the foremost of all Italian Grecists. The circumstances of the invitation are characteristic. en 2011 Richard Bentley. Poetry and Enlightenment Kristine Louise Haugen Harvard University Press 9780674058712 79–80 https://www.google.de/books/edition/Richard_Bentley/C2reHIyHh6UC?hl=de&gbpv=1&dq=%22Grecists%22&pg=PA80&printsec=frontcover When choosing which reading was preferable, it was both relevant and useful to ask whether a given fragment was plausible as a sentence and as a proposition. For Bentley the literary historian, then, textual criticism was a means to a necessary end; neither he nor his fellow Grecists were interested in discussion of methodological principles, or indeed of practices. Translations Someone learned in Greek studies Hellenist