Verrius Flaccus
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Marcus Verrius Flaccus (c. 55 BC – AD 20) was a
Augustus and Tiberius
.
Life
He was a freedman, and his
Fasti Praenestini.[1]
Works
Flaccus was also a distinguished philologist and antiquarian investigator. His most important work, De verborum significatu, was the first major alphabetical
De verborum significatu. Festus's work was in turn abridged centuries later by Paul the Deacon for the library of Charlemagne. 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.[1]
Other lost works of Flaccus include:
- 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.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
Attribution:
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Verrius Flaccus, Marcus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1038.
- For the fragments of the Fasti see Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, i. pp. 311;
- G. Gatti, "Due nuovi Frammenti del Calendario di Verrio Flacco," in Atti della r. Accademia dei Lincei, 5th ser., vol. 5, pt. 2, p. 421 (1898);
- Winther, De Fastis Verrii Flacci ab Ovidio adhibitis (1885);
- John Edwin Sandys, Classical Scholarship (ed. 1906), vol. i., index, s.v. "Verrius";
- Fragments of Flaccus in KO Müller's edition of Festus;
- Henry Nettleship, Lectures and Essays.
External links
- Fragments of Verrius Flaccus's works and testimonia in Latin
- English translation of Fasti Praenestinini at attalus.org
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