grammars of Winer-Moulton, Winer-Schmiedel, and Blass contain incidental references to the linguistic characteristics of the Alexandrian version. Viteau in the way of determining the relation of Septuagint Greek to the classical and later usage, and to the Greek of the N.T. In modern times the ground has been broken by Sturz and Thiersch, and within the last few years Deissmann has used the recently discovered papyri of Egypt to illustrate the connotation or the form of a number of Septuagint nouns and verbs. Two ancient treatises upon the dialect of Alexandria, by Irenaeus (Minutius Pacatus) and Demetrius Ixion, have unhappily disappeared. No thorough treatment of the Greek idiom of the LXX. Additional Notes - Henry Barclay Swete 1. An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek.
