Dositheus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Δωσίθεος). A grammarian who flourished towards the end of the fourth century A.D. He wrote a Latin grammar for Greek boys, with a literal Greek translation, which was not fully completed. With this was bound up (whether by Dositheus himself is uncertain) a miscellany of very various contents by another author. This comprises 1. anecdotes of the emperor Hadrian; 2. fables of Aesop; 3. an important chapter on jurisprudence; 4. mythological stories from Hyginus; 5. an abridgment of the Iliad; 6. an interesting collection of words and phrases from ordinary conversation, styled Ἑρμηνεύματα. The Latin grammar has the Greek translation inserted in the Latin text, thus: αρς τέχνη grammatica γραμματική est ἐστίν scientia γνῶσις. The Latin is the text of a grammar now lost, Dositheus making only the Greek translation. A separate edition of the grammar is that of Keil (Halle, 1869-71). Other parts of the work are edited by Böcking (Bonn, 1832), and Keil, Grammatici Latini, vii. 424. See Hagen, De Dosithei Magistri quae Feruntur Glossis (Berne, 1877); and Schönemann, De Lexicographis Antiquis (Bonn, 1886).