Comminianus (also referred to as Cominianus or Comminian) was a

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

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of the late fourth century. His writings no longer exist and he is only known through the ''

Ars grammatica An ''ars grammatica'' ( en, italic=yes, art of grammar) is a generic or proper title for surveys of Latin grammar. The first ''ars grammatica'' seems to have been composed by Remmius Palaemon (first century CE), but is now lost. The most famous '' ...

'' of Charisius. He is the final author mentioned in Alcuin's poetic recounting of the Latin authors contained in his library at York Minster.

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