Sulpicius Apollinaris
Sulpicius Apollinaris was a learned grammarian of Carthage who flourished in the 2nd century AD. He taught Pertinax, himself a teacher of grammar before he was emperor, and Aulus Gellius, who speaks of him in the highest terms. He is the reputed author of the metrical arguments to the Aeneid and to the plays of Terence and (probably) Plautus. Beck, De Sulpicio Apollinari, 1884)
Also recorded as Gaius Sulpicius Apollinaris
Sulpicius Apollinaris
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- Ancient Rome
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- grammarian · writer
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- lexicography
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- Latin
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Sulpicius Apollinaris was a learned grammarian of Carthage who flourished in the 2nd century AD. He taught Pertinax, himself a teacher of grammar before he was emperor, and Aulus Gellius, who speaks of him in the highest terms. He is the reputed author of the metrical arguments to the Aeneid and to the plays of Terence and (probably) Plautus. Beck, De Sulpicio Apollinari, 1884)
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