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STILO PRAECONINUS, See also:

LUCIUS AELIUS, (c. 154–74 B.c.) , of See also:Lanuvium, the earliest See also:Roman philologist, was a See also:man of distinguished See also:family and belonged to the equestrian See also:order. He was called Stilo (stilus, See also:pen), because he wrote speeches for others, and Praeconinus from his See also:father's profession (praeco, public crier). His aristocratic sympathies were so strong that he voluntarily accompanied Q. See also:Caecilius See also:Metellus Numidicus into See also:exile. At See also:Rome he divided his See also:time between teaching (although not as a professional schoolmaster) and See also:literary See also:work. His most famous pupils were See also:Varro and See also:Cicero, and amongst his See also:friends were Coelius See also:Antipater, the historian, and See also:Lucilius, the satirist, who dedicated their See also:works to him. According to Cicero, who expresses a poor See also:opinion of his See also:powers as an orator, Stilo was a follower of the Stoic school. Only a few fragments of his works remain. He wrote commentaries on the See also:hymns of the See also:Salii, and (probably) on the Twelve Tables; and investigated the genuineness of the Plautine comedies, of which he recognized 25, four more than were allowed by Varro. It is probable that he was the author of a See also:general glossographical work, dealing with literary, See also:historical and antiquarian questions. The rhetorical See also:treatise Ad Herennium has been attributed to him by some See also:modern scholars.

See Cicero, See also:

Brutus, 205-207, De legibus, ii. 23, 59; Suetonius, De grammaticis, 2; See also:Gellius Hi. 3, 1. 12; See also:Quintilian, Inst. orat. x., 1, 99; monographs by J. See also:van Heusde (1839) and F. Mentz (1888); See also:Mommsen, Hist. of Rome, bk. iv. ch. 12, 13; J. E. See also:Sandys, See also:History of Classical Scholarship (2nd ed., 4906) ; M. Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Literatur (1898), vol. i.; See also:Teuffel, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 1900), p. 148.

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