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AQUILA ROMANUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 249 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AQUILA See also:ROMANUS , a Latin grammarian who flourished in the second See also:half of the 3rd See also:century A.D. He was the author of an extant See also:treatise De Figuris Sententiarum et Elocutionis, written as an See also:instalment of a See also:complete rhetorical handbook for the use of a See also:young and eager correspondent. While recommending See also:Demosthenes and See also:Cicero as See also:models, he takes his own examples almost exclusively from Cicero. His treatise is really adapted from that by See also:Alexander, son of See also:Numenius, as is expressly stated by See also:Julius Rufinianus, who brought out a supplementary treatise, augmented by material from other See also:sources. Aquila's See also:style is harsh and careless, and the Latin is inferior. See also:Halm; Rhetores See also:Latini minores (1863) ; Wensch, De Aquila Romano (1861).

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