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FORTUNATIANUS, ATILIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 726 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FORTUNATIANUS, ATILIUS , Latin grammarian, flourished in the 4th See also:century A.D. He was the author of a See also:treatise on metres, dedicated to one of his pupils, a youth of senatorial See also:rank, who desired to be instructed in the Horatian metres. The See also:manual opens with a discussion of the fundamental ideas of See also:metre and the See also:chief rules of See also:prosody, and ends with a detailed See also:analysis of the metres of See also:Horace. The chief authorities used are Caesius See also:Bassus and the Latin See also:adaptation by See also:Juba the grammarian of the Tixvn of See also:Heliodorus. Fortunatianus being a See also:common name in the See also:African provinces, it is probable that the author was a countryman of Juba, See also:Terentianus Maurus and See also:Victorinus. See also:Editions of the Ars in H. Keil, Grammatici See also:Latini, vi., and separately by him (1885).

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