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ATILIUS See also:FORTUNATIANUS , Latin grammarian, flourished in the 4th See also:century A.D . He was the author of a See also:treatise on metres, dedicated to one of his pupils, a youth of senatorial See also:rank, who desired to be instructed in the Horatian metres . The See also:manual opens with a discussion of the fundamental ideas of See also:metre and the See also:chief rules of See also:prosody, and ends with a detailed See also:analysis of the metres of See also:Horace . The chief authorities used are Caesius See also:Bassus and the Latin See also:adaptation by See also:Juba the grammarian of the Tixvn of See also:Heliodorus . See also:Fortunatianus being a See also:common name in the See also:African provinces, it is probable that the author was a countryman of Juba, See also:Terentianus Maurus and See also:Victorinus . See also:Editions of the Ars in H . Keil, Grammatici See also:Latini, vi., and separately by him (1885) . |
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