Abstract
A POPULAR MEDIUM OF ELEMENTARY Byzantine education in gram? mar and orthography was the genre known as axeSoypoccpioc.1 The genre is represented by a (larger or smaller) collection of a^eSri (brief passages of prose [most frequently] or verse). The individual words of the text are accompanied by a fourfold analysis: (1) interlinear glosses;2 (2 and 3) grammatical and etymological/derivational analysis of individual words; (4) a list of words beginning with the same two or three letters as the word analyzed?each word may or may not be glossed. While these lists quote some well-known texts, the grammatical analyses preserve only two quotations of classical authors; both, by some chance, are of Sophocles.3 Our earliest, and necessarily very incomplete, knowledge of the genre comes in references and allusions thereto, like those of Anna Comnena (Alexiad 15.7) or Eustathius (e.g., Comm. in Hom. //. 1.367.4;
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