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. He was probably an

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to take the place of Euanthius, a learned commentator on

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''Ars Grammatica''

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, is valuable as it contains excerpts from the earlier writers on grammar, who are in many cases mentioned by name:

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(Gaius Iulius Romanus),

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. The edition of Heinrich Keil, in ''Grammatici Latini'', i. (1857), has been superseded by that of

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(1925).

References

* Article by G. Gotz in Pauly-Wissowa, III. 2 (1899) * Teuffel, Wilhelm Sigismund and Schwabe, Ludwig von, ''History of Roman Literature'' (Engl. trans), Vol. I. 2 * Frohde, in ''Jahr. f. Philol.'', 18 Suppl. (1892), 567–672

External links

Corpus Grammaticorum Latinorum: complete texts and full bibliography
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