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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 179 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUCIUS ANNAEUS CORNUTUS  , Stoic philosopher, flourished in the reign of
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Nero . He was a native of
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Leptis in
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Libya, but resided for the most
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part in Rome . He is best known as the teacher and friend of
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Persius, whose satires he revised for publication after the poet's
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death, but handed them over to Caesius Bassus to edit, at the
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special request of the latter . He was banished by Nero (in 66 or 68) for having indirectly disparaged the emperor's projected
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history of the Romans in heroic verse (Dio Cassius lxii . 29), after which time nothing more is heard of him . He was the author of various rhetorical
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works in both Greek and Latin (`Priropucai TEXvac, De figuris sententiarum) . Another rhetorician, also named Cornutus, who flourished A.D . 200—250 (or in the second
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half of the 2nd century) was the author of a
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treatise TExv.q Tau IroAcrucou Aoyov (ed . J . Graeven, 189o) . A philosophical treatise, Theologiae Graecae compendium (of which the Greek title is uncertain; perhaps, `EA)rlveo) OeoXoyia, or Plepi T'Ylr TWV OeCov 0aews, though the latter may be the title of an abridgment of the former) is still extant . It is a
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manual of " popular
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mythology as expounded in the etymological and symbolical interpretations of the
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Stoics " (Sandys), and although marred by many absurd etymologies, abounds in beautifulthoughts (ed .

C .

Lang, 1881) .
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Simplicius and Porphyry refer to his commentary on the Categories of Aristotle, whose philosophy he is said to have defended against an opponent
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Athenodorus in a treatise 'Avr ypa¢o trpor'AOivebwpeg . His Aristotelian studies were probably his most important
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work . A commentary on Virgil (frequently quoted by Servius) and Scholia to Persius arc also attributed to him; the latter, however, are of much later date, and are assigned by Jahn to the Carolingian period . Excerpts from his treatise De enuntiatione vel orthographia are preserved in Cassiodorus . The so-called Disticha Cornuti (ed . Liebl,
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Straubing, 1888) belong to the
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late
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middle ages . See G . Martini, De L . Annaeo Cornuto (1825) ; O . Jahn, Prolegomena to his edition of Persius; H. von Arnim in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopddie, i. pt. ii .

(1894) ; M . Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur, i . 2 (1901), p . 285; W .

Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur (1898), pp . 702, 755; Teuffel-Schwabe, Hist. of
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Roman Literature (Eng. trans.), § 299, 2 .

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