ATILIUS

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