Hermeneumata

The Hermeneumata (; also known as the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana or Hermeneumata pseudo-Dositheana) are anonymous instructional manuals written in the third century CE to teach the Greek language to Latin-speaking people in the Roman Empire, and to teach Latin to Greek-speakers. The word "Hermeneumata" means "translation" or "interpretation".
History.
The "Hermeneumata" were composed as a Greek-Latin schoolbook in late antiquity, probably around the third century CE. The work was originally composed to help Greeks learn Latin, but in the medieval West, it came to be widely used as a source for Latin-literate authors to learn about Greek.
In the twentieth century, the name of the "Hermeneumata" inspired scholars to give the name "Hermeneutic style" to a style of Latin writing found in late Antiquity and the early Medieval West which was characterised by extensive use of Greek loan-words.
The "Hermeneumata" survive in nine manuscripts, mostly from the Middle Ages, one of which attributes the work to Dositheus Magister. For this reason, they are often known as the "Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana", although there is not sufficient evidence to attribute them to Dositheus. One of the manuscripts is the Anglo-Saxon Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale MS 1828-30.
Contents.
Contents vary dramatically from one manuscript to another, but at its fullest extent the text comprises:
The "Hermeneumata" was later adapted, and further Greek vocabulary being added from the "Liber glossarum".
The pedagogy of the dialogues is based on the immediate comprehension of extremely simple phrases, most often limited to a subject, verb and complement. There are no grammatical explanations: Conjugations are simply enumerated by way of disconnected sentences which present a variation on a grammatical theme (e.g. pronoun substitution, verb tense).