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DONATUS, AELIUS , See also:Roman grammarian and teacher of See also:rhetoric, flourished in the See also:middle of the 4th See also:century A.D. The only fact known regarding his See also:life is that he was the See also:tutor of St See also:Jerome. He was the author of a number of professional See also:works, of which there are still extant:—Ars grarnmatica; the larger portion of his commentary on See also:Terence (a compilation from other commentaries), but probably not in its See also:original See also:form; and a few fragments of his notes on See also:Virgil, preserved and severely criticized by Servius, together with the See also:preface and introduction, and life of Virgil. The first of these works, and especially the See also:section on the eight parts of speech, though possessing little claim to originality, and in fact evidently based on the same authorities which were used by the grammarians See also:Charisius and See also:Diomedes, attained such popularity as a school-See also:book that in the middle ages the writer's name, like the See also:French Calepin, became a See also:common See also:metonymy (in the form Bonet) for a rudimentary See also:treatise of any sort. On the introduction of See also:printing See also:editions of the little book were multiplied to an enormous extent. It is extant in the form of an Ars See also:Minor, which only treats of the parts of speech, and an Ars See also:Major, which deals with See also:grammar in See also:general at greater length. Aelius Donatus is to be distinguished from Tiberius See also:Claudius Donatus, the author of a commentary (Interpretations) on the Aeneid (of far less value than that of Servius), who lived about fifty years later. The best See also:text of the Ars and the commentaries upon it by Servius and others is in H. Keil, Grammatici See also:Latini, iv.; of the commentary on Terence there is an edition by P. Wessner (1902, Tei.ibner See also:series), with bibliography and full See also:account of See also:MSS. See generally E. A.

Grafenhan, Geschichte der klassischen Philologie See also:

im Allertum, iv. (185o); P. Rosenstock, De Donato, Terenti . . explicatore (1886); H. T. See also:Karsten, De See also:comm. See also:Don. ad Terenti fabulas origine et corrtpositione (See also:Leiden, 1907). For the commentary of Tiberius Donatus see 0. See also:Ribbeck, Prolegomena to Virgil, Grafenhan (as above), and V. Burkas, De Tiberii Claudii Donali in Aeneidem commentario (1889). The text will be found in G. See also:Fabricius's edition of Virgil (1561), ed. by H.

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George, i. (1905 See also:foil.).

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