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ASCONIUS PEDIANUS, See also:

QUINTUS (g B.C.—A.D. 76; or A.D. 3-88) , See also:Roman grammarian and historian, was probably a native of See also:Patavium (See also:Padua). In his later years he resided at See also:Rome, where he died, after having been See also:blind for twelve years, at the See also:age of eighty-five. During the reigns of See also:Claudius and See also:Nero he compiled for his sons, from various sources—e.g. the See also:Gazette (Acta Publica), shorthand reports or " skeletons " (See also:commentarii) of See also:Cicero's unpublished speeches, Tiro's See also:life of Cicero, speeches and letters of Cicero's contemporaries, various See also:historical writers, e.g. See also:Varro, See also:Atticus, Antias, Tuditanus and See also:Fenestella (a contemporary of See also:Livy whom he often criticizes)—historical commentaries on Cicero's speeches, of which only five, viz. in Pisonem, See also:pro Scauro. pro Milone, pro Cornelio and in toga candida, in a very mutilated See also:condition, are preserved. In a See also:note upon the speech pro Scauro, he speaks of See also:Longus See also:Caecina (d. A.D. 57) as still living, while his words imply that Claudius (d. 54) was not alive. This statement, therefore, must have been written between A.D. 54 and 57.

These valuable notes, written in See also:

good Latin, relate chiefly to legal, historical fund antiquarian matters. A commentary, of inferior Latinity and mainly of a grammatical See also:character, on Cicero's Verrine orations, is universally regarded as See also:spurious. Both See also:works were found by See also:Poggio in a MS. at St Gallen in 1416. This MS. is lost, but three transcripts were made by Poggio, Zomini (Sozomenus) of See also:Pistoia and Bartolommeo da See also:Montepulciano. That of Poggio is now at See also:Madrid (Matritensis x. 81), and that of Zomini is in the Forteguerri library at Pistoia (No. 37). A copy of Bartolommeo's transcript exists in See also:Florence (Laur. liv. 5). The later See also:MSS. are derived from Poggio's copy. Other works attributed to Asconius were: a life of See also:Sallust, a See also:defence of See also:Virgil against his detractors, and a See also:treatise (perhaps a See also:symposium in See also:imitation of See also:Plato) on See also:health and See also:long life. See also:Editions by Kiessling-See also:Scholl (1875), and A.

C. See also:

Clark (See also:Oxford, 1906), which contains a previously unpublished See also:collation of Poggio's transcript. See also See also:Madvig, De Asconio Pediano (1828).

End of Article: ASCONIUS PEDIANUS, QUINTUS (g B.C.—A.D. 76; or A.D. 3-88)

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