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CHARISIUS  , Latin grammarian, flourished about the middle of the 4th century A.D . He was probably an African by birth, summoned to Constantinople to take the place of Euanthius, a learned commentator on Terence . The Ars Grammatica of Charisius, in five books, addressed to his son (not a Roman, as the preface shows), has come down to us in a mutilated condition, the beginning of the first, part of the fourth, and the greater part of the fifth book having been lost . The work, which is merely a compilation, is valuable as containing excerpts from the earlier writers on grammar, who are in many cases mentioned by name—Q . Remmius Palaemon, C . Julius Romanus, Cominianus . The best edition is by H . Keil, Grammatici Latini, i . (1857); see also article by G . Gotz in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopadie, iii . 2 1899) ; Teuffel-Schwabe, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng. trans.), 419, 1 . 2; Frohde, in Jahr. f .

Philol., Y8 Suppl . (1892), 567-672 .