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"...The rare and archaic words that turned up in Homer and the other older poets had always interested Greek intellectuals. The first formal attempt to treat them was made by a poet-scholar, Philitas, who lived around 300 B.C. He compiled a work called Miscellaneous Words, in which he commented, in no systematic arrangement, on a mix of such terms.

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Thus, in a comedy staged at least half a century after Philitas' time, there is a scene in which a host, who is planning to give a dinner party, tells how the caterer he hired discussed the menu in such fancy and archaic language that "no one on earth could understand him; ... you'd have to get the complete works of Philitas and look up the meaning of every word."
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"- Libraries in the Ancient World.

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