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Arusianus Messius

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

Life

He was the author of a small extant work Exempla Elocutionum, dedicated to Olybrius and Probinus, consuls for the year 395. It contains an alphabetical list, chiefly of verbs admitting more than one construction, with examples from each of the four writers, Virgil, Sallust, Terence and Cicero.[1]

Cassiodorus, the only writer who mentions Arusianus, refers to it by the term Quadriga.[1]

References

Attribution
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Arusianus Messius". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Sources

  • Heinrich Keil, Grammatici Latini, vii.
  • WHD Suringar, Historia Critica Scholiastarum Latinorum (1834–1835)
  • Van der Hoeven, Specimen Literarium (1845)