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CAPER, FLAVIUS

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CAPER, FLAVIUS , Latin grammarian, flourished during the and See also:century. He devoted See also:special See also:attention to the See also:early Latin writers, and is highly spoken of by See also:Priscian. Caper was the author of two works—De Lingua See also:Latina and De Dubiis Generibus. These See also:works in their See also:original See also:form are lost; but two See also:short See also:treatises entitled De Orthographia and De Verbis Dubiis have come down to us under his name, probably excerpts from the original works, with later additions by an unknown writer. See F. Osann, De Flavio Capro (1849), and See also:review by W. See also:Christ in Philologus, xviii, 165-170 (1862), where several See also:editions of other important grammarians are noticed; G. Keil, De Flavio Grammatico," in Dissertationes Halenses, x. (1889) ; See also:text in H. Keil's Grammatici Lalini, vii.

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