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SOLINUS, GAIUS JULIUS

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SOLINUS, See also:GAIUS See also:JULIUS , Latin grammarian and compiler, probably flourished during the first See also:half of the 3rd See also:century A.D. He was the author of Collectanea rerum memorabilium, a description of curiosities in a chorographical framework. Adventus, to whom it is dedicated, is identified with Oclatinius Adventus, See also:consul A.D. 218. It contains a See also:short description of the See also:ancient See also:world, with remarks on See also:historical, social, religious and natural See also:history questions. The greater See also:part is taken from See also:Pliny's Natural History and the See also:geography of See also:Pomponius See also:Mela. According to See also:Mommsen, Solinus also used a See also:chronicle (possibly by See also:Cornelius Bocchns) and a Chorographia pliniana, an See also:epitome of Pliny's See also:work with additions made about the See also:time of See also:Hadrian. Schanz, however, suggests the See also:Roma and Pratum of Suetonius. The Collectanea was revised in the 6th century under the See also:title of Polyhistor (subsequently taken for the author's name). It was popular in the See also:middle ages, See also:hexameter abridgments being current under the names of Theodericus and Petrus Diaconus. The commentary by Saumaise in his Plinianae exercitationes (1689) is indispensable; best edition by Mommsen (1895), with valuable introduction on the See also:MSS., the authorities used by Solinus, and subsequent compilers. See also See also:Teuffel, Hist. of See also:Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 1900), 389; and Schanz, Geschithte der romischen Litteratur (1904), iv.

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