Quintus Terentius Scaurus was a

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grammarian who flourished during the reigns of

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and

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.Holford-Strevens, Leofranc
Review of Q. (Quintus) Terentius Scaurus, Federico Biddau, ''Q. Terentii Scavri de orthographia.''
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008] He was the author of an ''

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'' and commentaries on

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Plautus Titus Maccius Plautus ( ; 254 – 184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by Livius Andro ...

. Under his name, two fragments are extant—the longer from his work on

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(''De orthographia''), the shorter (chiefly on the use of prepositions) from another grammatical work. They have both been published by

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 ''Scriptores de orthographia'', the 7th volume of his ''Grammatici Latini'' (

Teubner The Bibliotheca Teubneriana, or ''Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana'', also known as Teubner editions of Greek and Latin texts, comprise one of the most thorough modern collections published of ancient (and some medieva ...

, 1880); the ''De orthographia'' has appeared in a new edition prepared by Federico Biddau ( Weidmann, 2008).

Editions

* ; re-issued by Cambridge Library Collection (2010), . * Federico Biddau (ed.), ''Q. Terentii Scauri De orthographia'' (Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2008), Pp. cxiv, 244 (Bibliotheca Weidmanniana, 6, Pars. 5)
Review
by Leofranc Holford-Strevens, ''BMCR''.

Sources

External links

Corpus Grammaticorum Latinorum: complete texts and full bibliography
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