Flavius Sosipater Charisius ( 4th century AD) was a

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grammarian. He was probably an

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to take the place of Euanthius, a learned commentator on

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''Ars Grammatica''

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. The work, which is a

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, is valuable as it contains excerpts from the earlier writers on grammar, who are in many cases mentioned by name:

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(Gaius Iulius Romanus),

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. The edition of

Heinrich Keil Theodor Heinrich Gottfried Keil (25 May 1822, Gressow – 27 August 1894, Friedrichroda) was a German classical philologist. He was a son-in-law to educator Friedrich August Eckstein (1810–1885). He studied classical philology at the Univer ...

, in ''Grammatici Latini'', i. (1857), has been superseded by that of

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(1925).

References

* Article by G. Gotz in

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, 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

External links

Corpus Grammaticorum Latinorum: complete texts and full bibliography
Grammarians of Latin Ancient linguists 4th-century writers in Latin {{AncientRome-bio-stub