Flashcards: Grammarians of Latin

Publius Valerius Cato (flourished 1st century BC) was a grammarian and poet of the Roman Republic.

Marcus Valerius Probus (c. 20/30 – 105 AD) of Berytus, was a Roman grammarian and critic, who flourished during Nero's reign.

Aelius Festus Aphthonius was a Latin grammarian of the 4th or 5th century, possibly of African origin, and considered to be one of the most important classical rhetoricians.

Aelius Donatus (English pronunciation: /doʊˈneɪtəs/; fl. mid-4th century AD) was a Roman grammarian and teacher of rhetoric.

Priscianus Caesariensis (fl. AD 500), commonly known as Priscian (/ˈprɪʃən/ or /ˈprɪʃiən/), was a Latin grammarian and the author of the Institutes of Grammar which was the standard textbook for the study of Latin during the Middle Ages.

Rabanus Maurus Magnentius (c. 780 – 4 February 856), also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Frankish Benedictine monk and theologian who became archbishop of Mainz in Germany.

John of Genoa or Johannes Balbus (died c. 1298) was an Italian grammarian and Dominican priest.

Ælfric of Eynsham (Old English: Ælfrīc; Latin: Alfricus, Elphricus) (c. 955 – c. 1010) was an English abbot, as well as a consummate, prolific writer in Old English of hagiography, homilies, biblical commentaries, and other genres.

Marcus Cornelius Fronto (c. 100 – late 160s), Roman grammarian, rhetorician and advocate of Berber origin, was born at Cirta in Numidia.

Arusianus Messius, or Messus, Latin grammarian, flourished in the 4th century.

Tatwine or Tatwin (Tatuini or Tadwinus; c. 670–734) was the tenth Archbishop of Canterbury from 731 to 734.

Alexander Adam (24 June 1741 – 18 December 1809) was a Scottish teacher and writer on Roman antiquities.

Quintus Asconius Pedianus (c. 9 BC – c. AD 76) was a Roman historian.

Censorinus was a Roman grammarian and miscellaneous writer from the 3rd century AD.

Gaius Marius Victorinus (also known as Victorinus Afer; fl. 4th century) was a Roman grammarian, rhetorician and Neoplatonic philosopher.

Lucius Orbilius Pupillus (114 BC – c. 14 BC) was a Latin grammarian of the 1st century BC, who taught a school, first at Benevento and then at Rome, where the poet Horace was one of his pupils.

Publius Rutilius Lupus was a Roman rhetorician who flourished during the reign of Tiberius.

Alcuin of York (English pronunciation: /ˈalkwɪn/; Latin: Alcuinus; c. 735 – 19 May 804 AD) — also called Ealhwine, Albinus or Flaccus — was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria.

Quintus Remmius Palaemon or Quintus Rhemnius Fannius Palaemon was a Roman grammarian and a native of Vicentia.

Maurus Servius Honoratus was a late fourth-century and early fifth-century grammarian, with the contemporary reputation of being the most learned man of his generation in Italy; he was the author of a set of commentaries on the works of Virgil.

Pomponius Porphyrion (or Porphyrio) was a Latin grammarian and commentator on Horace.

Gaius Maecenas Melissus (/məˈlɪsəs/; fl. 1st century AD) was one of the freedmen of Gaius Maecenas, the noted Roman Augustan patron of the arts.

Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, commonly referred to as Macrobius, was a Roman who flourished during the early fifth century.

Terentianus, surnamed Maurus (a native of Mauretania), was a Latin grammarian and writer on prosody who flourished probably at the end of the 2nd century AD.

Diomedes Grammaticus was a Latin grammarian who probably lived in the late 4th century AD.

Johannes de Garlandia or John of Garland was a philologist and university teacher.

Matthew of Vendôme (Matheus or Matthaeus Vindocinensis) was a French author of the 12th century, writing in Latin, who had been was a pupil of Bernard Silvestris, at Tours, as he himself writes.

Helenius Acron (or Acro) was a Roman commentator and grammarian, probably of the 3rd century after Christ, but whose precise date is not known.

Aemilius Asper, Latin grammarian, possibly lived in the 1st century AD or late 2nd century AD.

Antonius Rufus was a Latin grammarian who was quoted by the rhetorician Quintilian and the grammarian Velius Longus.

Lucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus (/ˈstaɪloʊ/; c. 154 – 74 BC), of Lanuvium, is the earliest philologist of the Roman Republic.

Peter of Pisa (Latin: Petrus Pisanus; Italian: Pietro da Pisa; 744 – 799 AD), also known as Petrus Grammaticus, was an Italian grammarian, deacon and poet in the early middle ages.

Eutychius Proclus (Ancient Greek: Εὐτύχιος Πρόκλος, Eutychios Proklos, or Tuticius Proculus in some sources) was a grammarian who flourished in the 2nd century CE.

Trosius Aper was a grammarian of ancient Rome who served as one of two Latin tutors for the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, along with Tuticius Proculus.

Aquila Romanus was a Latin grammarian who flourished in the second half of the 3rd century AD.

Geoffrey of Vinsauf (fl. 1200) is a representative of the early medieval grammarian movement, termed preceptive grammar by James J.

Tiberius Claudius Donatus was a Roman Latin grammarian of whom a single work is known, the Interpretationes Vergilianae, a commentary to Virgil.

Cruquianus or Commentator Cruquianus was an anonymous writer of ancient Rome known primarily as a noted scholiast on the Roman lyric poet Horace.

William Horman (c. 1440 – April 1535) was a headmaster at Eton and Winchester in the early Tudor period of English history.

Flavius Caper was a Latin grammarian who flourished during the 2nd century AD.

Quintus Terentius Scaurus, Latin grammarian, flourished during the reign of Hadrian (Aulus Gellius xi.15).

Publius Consentius was a 5th-century Latin grammarian and the author of two treatises, which are perhaps the fragments of a complete grammar: one entitled, Ars de Duabus Partibus Orationis, Nomine et Verbo, on the noun and the verb, much used during the Carolingian period; and the other, Ars de Barbarismis et Metaplasmis, on barbarisms and metaplasm.

Niccolò Perotti, also Perotto or Nicolaus Perottus (1429 – 14 December 1480) was an Italian humanist and author of one of the first modern Latin school grammars.

Agroecius or Agroetius was an ancient Gaul who was bishop of Sens.

William Lily (or William Lilly or Lilye; c. 1468 – 25 February 1522) was an English classical grammarian and scholar.