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Its name, Graecismus, was based upon a chapter, the eighth, devoted to the elementary study of Greek a feature which constituted an advance on the current grammars of the age. A few extracts will show the character of the assistance it offered to the would-be Greek scholar. Cf. Gerasmus and Hierasmus as variations of the name Herasmus or Erasmus.
Some sporadic examples there may have been of men who added a knowledge of the Greek character to their reminiscences of the Graecismus; just as at the present day it is not difficult to acquire a faint acquaintance with Oriental languages, enough to recognize the formation of words and plough out the letters, without any real knowledge.
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