Meditations I.10

From Alexander the Grammarian,²¹ not to be captious; nor in a carping spirit find fault with those who import into their conversation any expression which is barbarous or ungrammatical or mispronounced, but tactfully to bring in the very expression, that ought to have been used, by way of answer, or as it were in joint support of the assertion, or as a joint consideration of the thing itself and not of the language, or by some such graceful reminder.

• 21.Of Cotiaeum, see Aristides, Orations xii. 142 ff. (Jebb’s edition). He lived to a great age. He was in Rome in 145 (see the same oration, §159) and resided at the palace (§§ 148, 154). See above on i. 5.

  Alexander of Cotiaeum, in Phrygia, was a grammarian, and Capitolinus lists him as Marcus’s teacher of Greek grammar. The Aristides oration is his funeral speech for Alexander; the cross-reference to I.5 is to Haines’s note there, where the same speech calls Alexander Marcus’s tropheus.