ANOM'ALISTS AND ANAL'OGISTS (for derivation, see below). Under this name were known in antiquity the representatives of the two opposing views of the origin of language. The science of grammar was developed in the Al exandriassAge, although sonic beginning had been made in the earlier period. notably by Aristotle. The Stoics concerned themselves with questions as to the origin of language, and maintained that it was a natural growth, while the grammarians maintained that it was the product of conven tion. Chrysippus (q.v.) went further and taught that language was based on difference, irregularity (irewpaitia, anoinalia); the Alexan drians, Aristophanes and Aristarchus, contended that regularity, analogy (6vcaoyia, analogia), was the rule, and that all departure from reg ularity is to be explained as an exception to the general la W. The Pergamene School of gram marians, under the leadership of Crates of hal los, adopted the anomalistic doctrine against.the analogisti• teaching of the Alexandrians. When
Crates was sent on an embassy to Rome in the middle of the second century B.C. he transplanted his doctrine to that city. The Alexandrians' views gained currency there somewhat later, and the contest between the two doetrines lasted a long time. .Elias Stilo, the teacher of Cicero and Varro, favored analogy; Cresar wrote two De Analogia, now lost; and Varro de voted Books VIII.-X., still extant, of his De Lin gua Latina to a discussion of the two views. The analogistie view finally prevailed.
Consult: Wheeler, "Analogy and the Scope of Its Application in Language," Cornell Classical Studies (Ithaca, 1887) ; Etude sur l'ana logic (Paris. 1883) ; Paul. Introduction to the Study of the history of Language, translated and edited by Strong (London, 1888) ; and Strong, Logeman and Wheeler, to the Study of the History of Language (London, 1891 ), which is founded upon Paul's work. See Pim-m. 0GL