γραμμᾰτ-ικός, ή, όν,
knowing one's letters, a good scholar, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.2.20, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 207b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1105a21 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 285d, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.621 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἀγράμματος, [[ 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.19.6; ἀνὴρ γ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.582a ] Refs 1st c.AD+]. adverb -κῶς[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Tht.” [same place], etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 γ. ἔκπωμα a cup engraved with the alphabet or an inscription, [[ 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 69, compare 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 11.466d, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Lex.” 7. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 γ. ἀνάγκαι falsa lectio for{γραμμικαί}, [[ 3rd c.AD: Alexander Aphrodisiensis Philosophus “Problemata - Physici et Medici Graeci Minores” 2.46. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__II substantive, γραμματικός, ὁ, teacher of the rudiments, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 4.37, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.59f:— _feminine_ -κή, “Sammelb.” 5753. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 one who occupies himself with literary texts, grammarian, critic, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 32.2.5, 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 3.61, 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 53.1, “IG” 14.1183, etc.] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; first used of Apollodorus of Cyrene, accusative to [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Clemens Alexandrinus Theologus “Stromateis” 1.16.79:— _feminine_ -κή, ἡ, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 1.14d. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]