AEMILIUS

See also:

• AEMILIUS ASPER
• ASPER, HANS (1499-171)

ASPER  , Latin grammarian, possibly lived in the 2nd century A.D . He wrote commentaries on Terence, Sallust and Virgil . Numerous fragments of the last show that as both Critic and commentator he possessed good judgment and taste . They are printed in Keil, Probi in Vergilii Bucolica Commentarius (1848); see also Suringar, Historia Critica Scholiastarum Latinorum (1834) ; Grafenhan, Geschichte der klassischen Philologie im Alter/hum. iv . (rS43-I8;o) . Two short grammatical treatises, extant under the name of Asper, and of very little value, have nothing to do with the commentator, but belong to a much later date—the time of Priscian (6th century) . Both are printed in Keil, Grammatici Latini . See also Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur, § 598 .