Grammarian
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
grammarian · he who is going to be a grammarian · النحوي · النحويون
spoken of as
1 expressionThe grammarians1 mention
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab (Arabic)
There is no harm in the grammarians, and their science is a good one and is needed.
in the texts
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The grammarians, whose science the author calls good and necessary but religiously weightless when detached from scripture, so that God will not even question them about it.
There is no harm in the grammarians, and their science is a good one and is needed.
( The Science of Grammar )
Letters to Lucilius
The type of reader who studies texts for word usage and style rather than moral content
He who is going to be a grammarian and examines Virgil reads that excellent line, "irrecoverable time flees on," not with this mind:
The man who reads that verse with the eyes of a grammarian does not reflect on this—that each best day is first because diseases come on, because old age presses, and hangs over the head even of those still thinking of adolescence;
When some philologist takes up Cicero's book On the Commonwealth, here, and a grammarian there, and there one devoted to philosophy, each directs his attention elsewhere.