Authority Cited: Lily
Author name and dates: William Lily (c.1468-1522)
BKG Bio-tweet: Greek scholar; Latin grammar textbook widely used; attended lectures in Rome; Shakespeare quotes; examples in Milton Grammar
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Lily cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No Lily cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The Latin Syntaxis with same passage for dodkin also appears in later (e.g., 1723) editions of A Short Introduction to Grammar, see Accidence. The Latin Syntaxis is by Thomas Robertson (Schoolmaster and dean of Durham, fl.1520-1561)).]
Author name and dates: William Lily (c.1468-1522)
BKG Bio-tweet: Greek scholar; Latin grammar textbook widely used; attended lectures in Rome; Shakespeare quotes; examples in Milton Grammar
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Lily cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No Lily cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The Latin Syntaxis with same passage for dodkin also appears in later (e.g., 1723) editions of A Short Introduction to Grammar, see Accidence. The Latin Syntaxis is by Thomas Robertson (Schoolmaster and dean of Durham, fl.1520-1561)).]
- Lily's Gram.[mar] Construed: Lily's rules construed: Whereunto are added Tho. Robinson's Heteroclites, the Latin syntaxis, also there are added the rules for the genders of nouns and preterperfect tenses and supines of verbs, in English alone. 1717, London : Printed by Roger Norton, printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty in Latin, Greek and Hebrew; dodkin (p.62 in The Syntaxis Construed: non emerian I bought it not teruncio for a dodkin leu or vitiosa nuce a worm eaten nut. The Dict. quote, "I would not buy them for a dodkin" is inexact, likely from memory.)
- Lily (no work cited);