Lucius Caecilicus Minutianus Appuleius was a writer of

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whose surviving works are about grammar. He was commonly acknowledged until the 19th century to be the author of a work ''de Orthographia'', of which considerable fragments were first published by Italian Cardinal and philologist

Angelo Mai Angelo Mai (''Latin'' Angelus Maius; 7 March 17828 September 1854) was an Italian Cardinal and philologist. He won a European reputation for publishing for the first time a series of previously unknown ancient texts. These he was able to discove ...

. They were republished by

Friedrich Gotthilf Osann Friedrich Gotthilf Osann (August 22, 1794, in Weimar – 30 November 1858, in Giessen) was a German classical philologist. He was a brother to physician Emil Osann (1787–1842) and chemist Gottfried Osann (1796–1866). He received h ...

, with two other grammatical works, ''de Nota Aspirationis'' and ''de Diphthongis'', which also bear the name of Appuleius. Danish philologist

Johan Nicolai Madvig Johan Nicolai Madvig (; 7 August 1804 – 12 December 1886), was a Danish philologist and Kultus Minister. Life He was born on the Danish island of Bornholm, south of Sweden. He was educated at the classical school of Frederiksborg and the Un ...

showed that the treatise ''de Orthographia'' was actually a

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, the work of an impostor in the fifteenth century.

, ''de Apuleii Fragm. de Orthogr.'', Hafniae, 1829 The two other grammatical treatises above mentioned were probably written in the tenth century.

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