TERENTIANUS  , surnamed MAURUS (a native of

Mauretania), Latin grammarian and writer on prosody, flourished probably at the end of the 2nd century A.D . His references to Septimius Serenus and Alfius Avitus, who belonged to the school of " new poets " (poetae neoterici or novelli) of the reign of Hadrian and later, seem to show that he was a near contemporary of those writers . He was the author of a treatise (incomplete) in four books (written chiefly in hexameters), on letters, syllables, feet and metres, of which considerable use was made by later writers on similar subjects . The most important part of it is that which deals with metres, based on the work of Caesius Bassus, ' See Ep. ad Fam . I. ix . 15, Pro Caecina 27, Philippic II . 15 . 2 Essays (trans. by C . Cotton), chap. lxvii . Quoted by E . Neerette in his Histoire dc la liltfrature latine . .x\'t .

21 . the friend of

Persius . By some authorities Terentianus has been identified with the prefect of Syene mentioned in Martial (i . 86), which would make his date about a century earlier; others, again, who placed Petronius at the end of the 3rd century (a date no longer held), assigned Terentianus to the same period, from his frequent references to that author . Best edition, by H . Keil, Grammatici Latini, vi.; with commentary by L . Santen (1825); see also Teuffel-Schwabe, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng. tr.), 373a .