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NONIUS MARCELLUS

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MARCELLUS , Latin grammarian and lexicographer, flourished at the end of the 3rd or the beginning of the 4th See also:century A.D. He is often called the " Peripatetic of Thubursicum " (in See also:Numidia, probably his See also:birth-See also:place). He is the author of a sort of See also:lexicon called De compendiosa doctrina, in 20 sections or chapters, the first twelve of which See also:deal with See also:language and See also:grammar, the remaining eight with See also:special subjects (See also:navigation, See also:costume, See also:food, arms). The See also:work is a compilation from commentaries on the authors quoted (whom Nonius only knows at second See also:hand) and from existing dictionaries and grammars. Nonius is especially indebted to Verrius See also:Flaccus and Aulus See also:Gellius. The Doctrina is valuable as preserving fragments from old dramatists, See also:annalists, satirists and antiquarian writers. It is remarkable that in the quotations from the authors cited Nonius always follows the same See also:order, beginning with See also:Plautus and ending with See also:Varro and See also:Cato. The grammarians See also:Priscian and See also:Fulgentius borrowed largely from his See also:book; and in the 5th century a certain See also:Julius Tryphonianus Sabinus brought out a revised and annotated edition. See also:Editions by L. See also:Muller (1888) ; J. H. Onions, bks. i.-iii.

(1895) ; W. M. See also:

Lindsay (1903) (reviewed in Classical See also:Review, See also:October 1904). See also articles in the Classical Review (Dec. 1888, See also:June and See also:July 1889) ; J. H. Onions (Oct. 1890, Oct. 1895, Feb. 1896, Feb. 1902) ; W. M.

Lindsay; See also:

Journal of See also:Philology, xvi. (1888), xviu. (189o), (J. H. Onions), xxi. (1893). (" The Printed Editions of Nonius," by H. See also:Nettleship) ; P. Monceaux, See also:Les Africains. Etude sur la literature latine d'Afrique (1894) ; See also:Teuffel, Hist. of See also:Roman Literature (Eng. trans.), 404A; M. Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Literatur, iv. 1 (1904).

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