Quintus Terentius Scaurus 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 ...

grammarian who flourished during the reigns of

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and Hadrian.Holford-Strevens, Leofranc
Review of Q. (Quintus) Terentius Scaurus, Federico Biddau, ''Q. Terentii Scavri de orthographia.''
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008] He was the author of an '' ars grammatica'' and commentaries on Horace,

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'' and perhaps

Plautus Titus Maccius Plautus (; c. 254 – 184 BC), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the ...

. Under his name, two fragments are extant—the longer from his work on

orthography An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation. Most transnational languages in the modern period have a writing system, and ...

(''De orthographia''), the shorter (chiefly on the use of prepositions) from another grammatical work. They have both been published by

Heinrich Keil Theodor Heinrich Gottfried Keil (25 May 1822, Gressow – 27 August 1894, Friedrichroda) was a German classical philologist. He was a son-in-law to educator Friedrich August Eckstein (1810–1885). He studied classical philology at the Univer ...

in ''Scriptores de orthographia'', the 7th volume of his ''Grammatici Latini'' (

Teubner The Bibliotheca Teubneriana, or ''Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana'', also known as Teubner editions of Greek and Latin texts, comprise one of the most thorough modern collection published of ancient (and some medieval) ...

, 1880); the ''De orthographia'' has appeared in a new edition prepared by Federico Biddau ( Weidmann, 2008).

Editions

* ; re-issued by Cambridge Library Collection (2010), . * Federico Biddau (ed.), ''Q. Terentii Scauri De orthographia'' (Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2008), Pp. cxiv, 244 (Bibliotheca Weidmanniana, 6, Pars. 5)
Review
by Leofranc Holford-Strevens, ''BMCR''.

Sources

External links

Corpus Grammaticorum Latinorum: complete texts and full bibliography
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