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TERENTIANUS , surnamed MAURUS (a native of See also:

Mauretania), Latin grammarian and writer on See also:prosody, flourished probably at the end of the 2nd See also:century A.D. His references to Septimius See also:Serenus and Alfius Avitus, who belonged to the school of " new poets " (poetae neoterici or See also:novelli) of the reign of See also:Hadrian and later, seem to show that he was a near contemporary of those writers. He was the author of a See also:treatise (incomplete) in four books (written chiefly in hexameters), on letters, syllables, feet and metres, of which considerable use was made by later writers on similar subjects. The most important See also:part of it is that which deals with metres, based on the See also:work of Caesius See also:Bassus, ' See Ep. ad Fam. I. ix. 15, See also:Pro See also:Caecina 27, Philippic II. 15. 2 Essays (trans. by C. See also:Cotton), See also:chap. lxvii. Quoted by E. Neerette in his Histoire dc la liltfrature latine. .x\'t.

21. the friend of See also:

Persius. By some authorities Terentianus has been identified with the See also:prefect of Syene mentioned in See also:Martial (i. 86), which would make his date about a century earlier; others, again, who placed See also:Petronius at the end of the 3rd century (a date no longer held), assigned Terentianus to the same See also:period, from his frequent references to that author. Best edition, by H. Keil, Grammatici See also:Latini, vi.; with commentary by L. Santen (1825); see also See also:Teuffel-See also:Schwabe, Hist. of See also:Roman Literature (Eng. tr.), 373a.

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