Nonius Marcellus, Latin grammarian and lexicographer, lived at the end of the 3rd or the beginning of the 4th century AD. Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... This article is about grammar from a linguistic perspective. ... A lexicographer is a person devoted to the study of lexicography, especially an author of a dictionary. ...

He is often called the "Peripatetic of Thubursicum" (in Numidia, probably his birth-place). He is the author of a sort of lexicon. called De compendiosa doctrina, in 20 sections or chapters, the first twelve of which deal with language and grammar, the remaining eight with special subjects (navigation, costume, food, arms). The work is a compilation from commentaries on the authors quoted (whom Nonius only knows at second hand) and from existing dictionaries and grammars. Nonius is especially indebted to Verrius Flaccus and Aulus Gellius. Numidia was an ancient African Berber kingdom and later a Roman province on the northern coast of Africa between the province of Africa (where Tunisia is now) and the province of Mauretania (which is now the western part of Algerias coastal area). ... A lexicon is a list of words together with additional word-specific information, i. ... Marcus Verrius Flaccus (c. ... Aulus Gellius (c. ...

The Doctrina is valuable as preserving fragments from old dramatists, annalists, satirists and antiquarian writers. It is remarkable that in the quotations from the authors cited Nonius always follows the same order, beginning with Plautus and ending with Varro and Cato. The grammarians Priscian and Fulgentius borrowed largely from his book; and in the 5th century a certain Julius Tryphonianus Sabinus brought out a revised and annotated edition. Titus Maccius Plautus was a comic playwright of the Roman Republic. ... Marcus Terentius Varro ([[116 BC]–27 BC), also known as Varro Reatinus to distinguish him from his contemporary Varro Atacinus, was a Roman scholar and writer, who the Romans came to call the most learned of all the Romans. ... Cato can refer to several different things. ... Priscian (Priscianus Caesariensisi), the celebrated Latin grammarian, lived about A.D. 500, i. ... Fabius Planciades Fulgentius ( late 5th – early 6th century CE) was a Latin grammarian, and a native of Africa. ... // Events Romulus Augustus, Last Western Roman Emperor Rome sacked by Visigoths in 410. ...

Editions by L Müller (1888); JH Onions (1895); WM Lindsay (1903). See also articles in the Classical Review (Dec. 1888, June and July 1889); JH Onions (Oct. 1890, Oct. 1895, Feb. 1896, Feb. 1902); WM Lindsay; Journal of Philology, xvi. (1888), xviii. (1890), (JH Onions), xxi. (1893). ("The Printed Editions of Nonius," by H Nettleship); P Monceaux, Les Africains. Etude sur la littérature latine d'Afrique (1894); Teuffel, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng. trans.), 404A; M Schanz, Geschichte der römischen Literatur, iv. 1 (1904). Lucian Müller (17 March 1836 - 24 April 1898), was a German classical scholar. ... Henry Nettleship (May 5, 1839 - July 10, 1893) was an English classical scholar. ... Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel (September 27, 1820 - March 8, 1878), German classical scholar, was born at Ludwigsburg in the kingdom of Württemberg. ...

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