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CORNUTUS, LUCIUS ANNAEUS

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CORNUTUS, See also:LUCIUS ANNAEUS , Stoic philosopher, flourished in the reign of See also:Nero. He was a native of See also:Leptis in See also:Libya, but resided for the most See also:part in See also:Rome. He is best known as the teacher and friend of See also:Persius, whose satires he revised for publication after the poet's See also:death, but handed them over to Caesius See also:Bassus to edit, at the See also:special See also:request of the latter. He was banished by Nero (in 66 or 68) for having indirectly disparaged the See also:emperor's projected See also:history of the See also:Romans in heroic See also:verse (Dio See also:Cassius lxii. 29), after which See also:time nothing more is heard of him. He was the author of various rhetorical See also:works in both See also:Greek and Latin (`Priropucai TEXvac, De figuris sententiarum). Another rhetorician, also named Cornutus, who flourished A.D. 200—250 (or in the second See also:half of the 2nd See also:century) was the author of a See also:treatise TExv.q Tau IroAcrucou Aoyov (ed. J. Graeven, 189o). A philosophical treatise, Theologiae Graecae compendium (of which the Greek See also:title is uncertain; perhaps, `See also:EA)rlveo) OeoXoyia, or Plepi T'Ylr TWV OeCov 0aews, though the latter may be the title of an abridgment of the former) is still extant. It is a See also:manual of " popular See also:mythology as expounded in the etymological and symbolical interpretations of the See also:Stoics " (See also:Sandys), and although marred by many absurd etymologies, abounds in beautifulthoughts (ed.

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Lang, 1881). See also:Simplicius and See also:Porphyry refer to his commentary on the Categories of See also:Aristotle, whose See also:philosophy he is said to have defended against an opponent See also:Athenodorus in a treatise 'Avr ypa¢o trpor'AOivebwpeg. His Aristotelian studies were probably his most important See also:work. A commentary on See also:Virgil (frequently quoted by Servius) and Scholia to Persius arc also attributed to him; the latter, however, are of much later date, and are assigned by See also:Jahn to the Carolingian See also:period. Excerpts from his treatise De enuntiatione vel orthographia are preserved in See also:Cassiodorus. The so-called Disticha Cornuti (ed. Liebl, See also:Straubing, 1888) belong to the See also:late See also:middle ages. See G. See also:Martini, De L. Annaeo Cornuto (1825) ; O. Jahn, Prolegomena to his edition of Persius; H. von See also:Arnim in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopddie, i. pt. ii.

(1894) ; M. Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur, i. 2 (1901), p. 285; W. See also:

Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur (1898), pp. 702, 755; See also:Teuffel-See also:Schwabe, Hist. of See also:Roman Literature (Eng. trans.), § 299, 2.

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