Servius
Also recorded as Maurus Servius Honoratus · Marius Servius Honoratus · Sergius · Seregius
Servius
Maurus Honoratus Servius · Public domain
- Born
- 363.
- Died
- 301.
- Nationality
- Ancient Rome.
- Occupation
- grammarian, philologist and poet.
- Fields
- philology.
- Languages
- Latin.
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301
Servius died.
363
Servius born.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 118796313, Servius.
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- 1.Macrobius Criticism - Essay - eNotes.com. eNotes.
- 2.Robert A. Kaster, Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity (Berkeley, 1997), p. 357. Oxford Classical Dictionary, "Servius, grammarian and commentator". PLRE, vol. 1, p. 827.
- 3.The manuscript tradition is examined by Charles E. Murgia, Prolegomena to Servius 5: the manuscripts (University of California Classical Studies 11), University of California Press, 1975.
- 4.I. Biffi and C. Marabelli (eds.), Figure del pensiero medievale. Fondamenti e inizi IV-IX secolo, Jaca Book, 2009, p. 306
- 5.Encyclopædia Britannica 1911: sub "Servius Maurus Honoratus"
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Casali, Sergio and Fabio Stok (edd.). Servio: stratificazioni esegetiche e modelli culturali / Servius: exegetical stratifications and cultural models (Bruxelles: Éditions Latomus, 2008) (Collection Latomus, 317). .
- Rand, E. K., "Is Donatus's Commentary on Virgil Lost?" Classical Quarterly 10 (1916), 158–164. Donatus's authorship of the supplementary material.
- Savage, John Joseph Hannan, "The Manuscripts of the Commentary of Servius Danielis on Virgil", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 43 (1932), 77–121. .
- Savage, John Joseph Hannan, "The Manuscripts of Servius's Commentary on Virgil", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 45 (1934), 157–204. .
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