Arusianus Messius
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Template:Short description Arusianus Messius, or Messus (Template:Fl.), Latin grammarian, flourished in the 4th century.
Life
He was the author of a small extant work Exempla Elocutionum, dedicated to Olybrius and Probinus, consuls for the year 395. It contains an alphabetical list, chiefly of verbs admitting more than one construction, with examples from each of four writers, Virgil, Sallust, Terence and Cicero.Template:Sfn
Cassiodorus, the only writer who mentions Arusianus, refers to his work Exempla Elocutionum by the term Quadriga.Template:Sfn
References
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Sources
- Heinrich Keil, Grammatici Latini, vii.
- WHD Suringar, Historia Critica Scholiastarum Latinorum (1834–1835)
- Van der Hoeven, Specimen Literarium (1845)