Charisius
Template:Short description Flavius Sosipater Charisius (Template:Fl. 4th century AD) was a Latin grammarian.
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Ars GrammaticaEdit
The Ars Grammatica, in five books, is addressed to his son (not a Roman, as the preface shows). The surviving text is incomplete: the beginning of the first, part of the fourth, and the greater part of the fifth book are lost.<ref name=EB1911/>
The work, which is a compendium, is valuable as it contains excerpts from the earlier writers on grammar, who are in many cases mentioned by name: Remmius Palaemon, Julius Romanus (Gaius Iulius Romanus), Comminianus.<ref name=EB1911/>
The edition of Heinrich Keil, in Grammatici Latini, i. (1857), has been superseded by that of Karl Barwick (1925).
ReferencesEdit
- Article by G. Gotz in Pauly-Wissowa, III. 2 (1899)
- Teuffel, Wilhelm Sigismund and Schwabe, Ludwig von, History of Roman Literature (Engl. trans), Vol. I. 2
- Frohde, in Jahr. f. Philol., 18 Suppl. (1892), 567–672