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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Lara Pagani and first published on 12/09/2005.

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A grammarian named Theaetetus is cited four times in the scholia to the first Idyll¹ of Theocritus² for remarks that involved problems of prosody³ (παίδιον as proparoxytone, Sch. Theocr. 1, 50b; the Doric⁴ accentuation of accusatives like πτώκας, Sch. 1, 11…