Moeridis Atticistae Lexicon Atticum

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Sorry for the lame question, but...

Grammar books dating from the 1820's till well into that century (inc. LSJ) refer to either Moer. or Piers, ad Moer. in their footnotes.

Some of those books are:
A Greek Grammar of the New Testament By Georg Benedikt Winer (1825)
A Copius Greek Grammar, Volume 1 By August Matthiae (5th Ed. 1837)
A catalogue of irregular Greek verbs [extr. from P.C. Buttmann's Ausführliche griechische ... (1837)

I understand that Moer. is a reference to Moeridis Atticistae Lexicon Atticum (Moer the Atticist's Attic Dictionary), which can be gotten to by clicking on the link in this LSJ entry.

But, what is Piers, ad Moer.?

Is it this work Moeridis Atticistae Lexicon Atticum (1830) work on Internet archeive or is there another work that is meant?

Is the recent work:
Moeris Atticista lexicon Atticum. Edd. Johannes Pierson & Georg Aenotheus Koch. Aelius Herodianus. Philetaerus. Ed. Georg Aenotheus Koch (Latin) Hardcover – 1969
by Johannes, & Koch, Georg A., Ed. Moeris. Aelius Herodianus. Pierson a simple reprint, or a new revised edition or either that work or another?

[Qimmik]

According to LSJ, Moeris (genitive, Moeridis; "Moeris the Atticist") was a grammarian whom LSJ dates to the 2d century CE (there is apparently considerable uncertainty about this). He apparently compiled a lexicon of Attic vocabulary with what look like koine (or later?) equivalents, at least some of which has been preserved in manuscripts. The title would be Moeridis Atticistae Lexicon Atticum, "the Attic Lexicon of Moeris the Atticist." Obviously, he was nicknamed "the Atticist" because he wrote a work on Attic diction for purists who wanted to write Attic Greek in an age when Attic Greek had ceased to be the spoken norm. The text was apparently edited by one John Pierson with notes by him and other scholars and published in Leyden in 1759.

According to its title page, the 1830 edition you linked to is a revision of Pierson's edition by Georg Koch with additional notes of his own and notes from another edition by Johann Friedrich Fischer. In addition, Pierson's orginal edition, as well as the 1830 volume, include an edition of a work titled Philetaerus by (or, more likely, attributed to) another, more famous, 2d century CE grammarian, Aelius Herodian.

The Amazon link is to a 1969 reprint of the 1830 edition by G. Olms, a German publisher that specializes in reprinting older scholarly publications that still have some usefulness to specialists. These reprints are generally aimed at libraries.

But, what is Piers, ad Moer.?

This would be an annotation by Pierson to his text of Moeris.

Hope this helps.

Bill

Addendum: Moeris has not escaped the attention of Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aelius_Moeris

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Hope this helps.

Yes, greatly. Thanks.

Sorry for the lame question

The title would be Moeridis Atticistae Lexicon Atticum, "the Attic Lexicon of Moeris the Atticist."

Sorry for the lame Latin too. I assumed that his name was Moer and that, for some convoluted reasons based on Doric, Atticista was a genitive in alpha. I've fixed that now.

The Amazon link is to a 1969 reprint of the 1830 edition by G. Olms, a German publisher that specializes in reprinting older scholarly publications that still have some usefulness to specialists. These reprints are generally aimed at libraries.

Their business model must have needed some readjustment after Internet Archive and the like were established.

[Qimmik]

Their business model must have needed some readjustment after Internet Archive and the like were established.

I think they were absorbed by another academic publisher at some point. I suspect their main market is institutional--academic libraries, and that these still may want hard copies to some extent.

[Markos]

It is, at any rate, a nice resource for mono-lingual vocab building.