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FESTUS, SEXTUS POMPEIUS

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FESTUS, SEXTUS POMPEIUS , See also:Roman grammarian, probably flourished in the 2nd See also:century A.D. He made an See also:epitome of the celebrated See also:work De verborum significatu, a valuable See also:treatise alphabetically arranged, written by M. Verrius See also:Flaccus, a freedman and celebrated grammarian who flourished in the reign of See also:Augustus. Festus gives the See also:etymology as well as the meaning of every word; and his work throws considerable See also:light on the See also:language, See also:mythology and antiquities of See also:ancient See also:Rome. He made a few alterations, and inserted some See also:critical remarks of his own. He also omitted such ancient Latin words as had See also:long been obsolete; these he discussed in a See also:separate work now lost, entitled Priscorum verborum cum exemplis. Of Flaccus's work only a few fragments remain, and of Festus's epitome only one See also:original copy is in existence. This MS., the Codex Festi Farnesianus at See also:Naples, only contains the second See also:half of the work (M-V) and that not in a perfect See also:condition. It has been published in facsimile by Thewrewk de Ponor (1890). At the See also:close of the 8th century See also:Paulus Diaconus abridged the abridgment. From his work and the solitary copy of the original attempts have been made with the aid of conjecture to reconstruct the treatise of Festus. Of the See also:early See also:editions the best are those of J.

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Scaliger (1565) and Fulvius See also:Ursinus (1581); in See also:modern times, those of C. O. See also:Muller (1839, reprinted 188o) and de Ponor (1889); see J. E. See also:Sandys, See also:History of Classical Scholarship, vol. i. (1906).

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