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ASPER, AEMILIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 767 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ASPER, See also:AEMILIUS , Latin grammarian, possibly lived in the 2nd See also:century A.D. He wrote commentaries on See also:Terence, See also:Sallust and See also:Virgil. Numerous fragments of the last show that as both Critic and commentator he possessed See also:good See also:judgment and See also:taste. They are printed in Keil, Probi in Vergilii Bucolica Commentarius (1848); see also Suringar, Historia Critica Scholiastarum Latinorum (1834) ; Grafenhan, Geschichte der klassischen Philologie See also:im Alter/hum. iv. (rS43-I8;o). Two See also:short grammatical See also:treatises, extant under the name of Asper, and of very little value, have nothing to do with the commentator, but belong to a much later date—the See also:time of See also:Priscian (6th century). Both are printed in Keil, Grammatici See also:Latini. See also Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur, § 598.

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