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See also: Roman grammarian, a native of Vicentia, lived in the reigns of Tiberius and See also: Claudius
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From Suetonius (De grammaticis, 23) we learn that he was originally a slave who obtained his freedom and taught grammar at See also: Rome
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Though a See also: man of profligate and arrogant character, he enjoyed a See also: great reputation as a teacher; Quintilian and See also: Persius are said to have been his pupils
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His lost Ars (Juvenal, vii
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215), a See also: system of grammar much used in his own See also: time and largely See also: drawn upon by later grammarians, contained rules for correct diction, illustrative quotations and treated of barbarisms and solecisms (Juvenal vi
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452)
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An extant Ars grammatica (discovered by Jovianus See also: Pontanus in the 15th century) _and
other unimportant See also: treatises on similar subjects have been wrongly ascribed to him
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See C
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Marschall, De Remmii Palaemonis libris grammaticis (1887); " Latin Grammar in the First Century " by H
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Nettleship in Journal of See also: Philology, vol. xv
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(1886) ; J
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E
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Sandys, Hist. of Classical Scholarship (2nd ed., 1906) . |
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