Marcus Verrius Flaccus (c. 10 BC), was a Roman grammarian and teacher, flourished under Augustus and Tiberius. Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC - 10s BC - 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s Years: 15 BC 14 BC 13 BC 12 BC 11 BC 10 BC 9 BC 8 BC 7 BC 6 BC 5 BC... Ancient Rome was a civilization that existed in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East between 753 BC and its downfall in AD 476. ... Grammar is the study of the rules governing the use of a language. ... Augustus Caesar Caesar Augustus (Latin: IMP·CAESAR·DIVI·F·AVGVSTVS)¹ (23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), known earlier in his life as Gaius Octavius or Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, was the first Roman Emperor and is traditionally considered the greatest. ... The Emperor Tiberius enamelled terracotta bust at the Victoria and Albert Museum. ...

He was a freedman, and his manumitter has been identified with Verrius Flaccus, an authority on pontifical law; but for chronological reasons the name of Veranius Flaccus, a writer on augury, has been suggested (Teuffel-Schwabe, Hist. of Roman Lit. 199, 4). He gained such a reputation by his methods of instruction that he was summoned to court to bring up Gaius and Lucius, the grandsons of Augustus. He removed there with his whole school, and his salary was greatly increased on the condition that he took no fresh pupils. He died at an advanced age during the reign of Tiberius (Suetonius, De Grammaticis, 17), and a statue in his honour was erected at Praeneste, in a marble recess, with inscriptions from his Fasti. Several notable individuals of the Roman Empire were commonly called Gaius Caesar: Gaius Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator Gaius Julius Caesar Vipsanianus was the son of Agrippa and Julia Caesaris, and the heir apparent to Augustus Caesar, but died in AD 4. ... Lucius Caesar (17 BC-2, born Lucius Vipsanius Agrippa and adopted as Lucius Julius Caesar Vipsanianus) was the second son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia Caesaris. ... Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (75-160), commonly known simply as Suetonius, was a Roman writer. ... This article deals with the ancient town, for the composer see: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Palestrina (ancient Praeneste) was and is a very ancient city of Latium (modern Lazio) 23 miles (37 km) east of Rome, and was reached by the Via Praenestina (see below). ... Fasti, a Latin word, refers to the Roman calendar and almanac; and especially, to a long, unfinished poem on the religious festivals of the Roman year and their mythological underpinnings, by the poet Ovid. ...

Flaccus was also a distinguished philologist and antiquarian investigator. For his most important work (De Verborum Significatu) see Sextus Pompeius Festus. Of the calendar of Roman festivals (Fasti Praenestini) engraved on marble and set up in the forum at Praeneste, some fragments were discovered (1771) at some distance from the town itself in a Christian building of later date, and some consular fasti in the forum itself (1778). The collection was subsequently increased by two new fragments. For the town, see Festus, Missouri. ...

Other lost works of Flaccus were:

• De Orthographia: De Obscuris Catonis, an elucidation of obscurities in the writings of Cato the Elder
• Saturnus, dealing with questions of Roman ritual
• Rerum memoria dignarum libri, an encyclopaedic work much used by Pliny the Elder
• Res Etruscae, probably on augury.

For the fragments of the Fasti see Corpus Inscriplionum Latinarum, i. pp. 311; G Gatti, "Due nuovi Framinenti del Calendario di Verrio Flacco," in Atti della r. Accademia del Lincei, 5th ser., vol. 5, pt. 2, p. 421 (1898); Winther, De Fastis Verrii Flacci ab Ovidio adhibitis (1885); JE Sandys, Classical Scholarship (ed. 1906), vol. i., index, s.v. "Verrius"; fragments of Flaccus in KO Müller's edition of Festus; see also Henry Nettleship, Lectures and Essays. Marcus Porcius Cato (Latin: M·PORCIVS·M·F·CATO) (234 - 149 BC), Roman statesman, surnamed The Censor, Sapiens, Priscus, or Major (the Elder), to distinguish him from Cato the Younger (his great-grandson), was born at Tusculum. ... Gaius Plinius Secundus, (23–79) better known as Pliny the Elder, was an ancient author and scientist of some importance who wrote Naturalis Historia. ... Omens or portents are signs encountered fortuitously that are believed to foretell the future. ... Sir John Edwin Sandys was a classical scholar. ... Karl Otfried Müller ( August 28, 1797 - August 1, 1840), was a German scholar and Philodorian. ... Henry Nettleship (May 5, 1839 - July 10, 1893) was an English classical scholar. ...

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• This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.