- Terentianus
Terentianus, surnamed Maurus (a native of
Mauretania ),Latin grammarian and writer onprosody , flourished probably at the end of the2nd century .His references to
Septimius Serenus andAlfius Avitus , who belonged to the school of "new poets" ("poetae neoterici" or "novelli") of the reign ofHadrian and later, seem to show that he was a near contemporary of those writers. He was the author of a treatise (incomplete) in four books (written chiefly inhexameter s), on letters, syllables, feet and metres, of which considerable use was made by later writers on similar subjects. The most important part of it is that which deals with metres, based on the work ofCaesius Bassus , the friend ofPersius .By some authorities Terentianus has been identified with the prefect of
Syene mentioned inMartial (i. 86), which would make his date about a century earlier; others, again, who placedPetronius at the end of the3rd century (a date no longer held), assigned Terentianus to the same period, from his frequent references to that author.Best edition, by H Keil, "Grammatici Latini", vi.; with commentary by L Santen (1825); see also Teuffel-Schwabe, "Hist. of Roman Literature" (Eng. tr.), 3730.
References
*1911
External links
* [http://kaali.linguist.jussieu.fr/CGL/index.jsp Corpus Grammaticorum Latinorum: complete texts and full bibliography]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
