The philologists
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philologist · some philologist · the lexicographers · the philosophers of language · فلاسفة اللغة
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Letters to Lucilius (Latin)
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.
in the texts
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The masters of Arabic lexicography whose accounts of the word jinn, its derivation, its general and particular application and its literal and figurative senses make up the book's introduction.
As for *the introduction*, in it we relate what the philosophers of language said in explaining what is meant by *jinn*:
al-Rāghib al-Iṣbahānī said in his Mufradāt, in the article on the root *j-n-n*:
On what the philosophers of language said about the jinn
Letters to Lucilius
A reader-type who extracts historical and antiquarian trivia from texts rather than moral or grammatical content
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.
Besides he notes that the man whom we call dictator, and whom we read so named in the histories, was among the ancients called master of the people.