In search of a theory of concession in Dositheus' 'Ars grammatica'

Dositheus, a Latin grammarian of the tradition followed by Charisius, gives an account of Latin conjunctions, very close to that of Charisius himself or Diomedes. Nevertheless, a few words thought to be interpolated, and thus left out by Keil and Tolkiehn, the two previous editors, suggest a persona l theory of concession. Starting from nothing, for concession had no specif ic expression in Greek, Dositheus who attempted to present Latin linguistic s to advanced Greek students, built up a view of this category by contrasti ng with comparison. The theory of Dositheus depends on regarding a conjunct ion as involving a correlation, where the second element of the constructio n makes sense of the first.