Editing Aemilius Asper

{{Short description|Latin grammarian who possibly lived in the 1st century AD or late 2nd century AD}}
'''Aemilius Asper''', [[Latin]] [[Philologist|grammarian]], possibly lived in the 1st century AD or late 2nd century AD.

==Works==
Aemilius Asper wrote commentaries on [[Terence]], [[Sallust]] and [[Virgil]] dealing with content and form, and including parallels with other authors. Numerous fragments of the commentary on Virgil show that as both critic and commentator he possessed good judgment and taste. They are printed in Keil, ''Probi in Vergilii Bucolica Commentarius'' (1848); see also Suringar, ''Historia Critica Scholiastarum Latinum'' (1834); Grafenhan, ''Geschichte der klassischen Philologie im Alterthum'', iv (1843–1850).{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=767}}

Two short grammatical treatises, extant under the name of Asper, and of very little value, have nothing to do with the commentator, but belong to a much later date; the time of [[Priscian]] (6th century). Both are printed in Keil, ''Grammatici Latini''.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=767}}

[[Aelius Donatus]] is thought to have borrowed freely from Asper.{{sfn|Tomsin|1952|p={{page needed|date=April 2012}}}}

==Notes==
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==References==
*{{cite book|last=Tomsin |first=Alfred  |title=Étude sur le commentaire virgilien d'Aemilius Asper |publisher=Bibliothèque de la Faculté de philosophie et lettres de l'Université de Liège |year=1952}}
*{{EB1911|wstitle=Asper, Aemilius|volume=2|page=767}} That refers to [[Martin Schanz|Schanz]], ''Geschichte der romischen Litteratur'', sect. 598.

==External links==
*[https://archive.today/20121204163129/http://kaali.linguist.jussieu.fr/CGL/index.jsp Corpus Grammaticorum Latinorum: complete texts and full bibliography]

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