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    Servius, distinguished as Servius the Grammarian (Latin: Servius or Seruius Grammaticus), was a late fourth-century and early fifth-century grammarian...
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  • Servius may refer to: Servius (praenomen), a personal name during the Roman Republic Servius the Grammarian (fl. 4th/5th century), Roman Latin grammarian...
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    sexual organs but the forehead. Servius the Grammarian noted frontem Genio, unde venerantes deum tangimus frontem. The sex of the genii—as well as of...
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  • Thilo et Hermannus Hagen [Commentaries on the Poems of Vergil Which Were Reported of Servius the Grammarian]. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner.Perseus Project A...
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    and the mythical Cretan general, Idomeneus, as related by Servius the Grammarian in his Commentary on the Aeneid of Vergil. Idomeneus had asked the gods...
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  • Praefectus urbi of Constantinople in 394 Servius the Grammarian, commentator on Vergil sometimes given the cognomen Honoratus in medieval manuscripts...
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    tradition, preserved by Servius the Grammarian in a commentary on Virgil's Aeneid, continues the story as follows: after the war, Idomeneus's ship hit...
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  • 856) Saint Maurus of Pécs, the second bishop of Pécs, and abbey of Pannonhalma (c. 1000-c. 1075) Others Servius the Grammarian, commentator on Vergil sometimes...
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  • Artemon of Clazomenae (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the DGRBM)
    must have lived in or before the 2nd century CE. He perhaps wrote in pre-Hellenistic times. The writer Servius the Grammarian in his commentaries on Virgil's...
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  • a favourite of the goddess Athena. Her story survives in the works of fifth-century AD Latin grammarian Maurus Servius Honoratus. The ancient Greek noun...
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  • Artemon (engineer) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the DGRBM)
    made by Polycletus. The writer Servius the Grammarian in his commentaries on Virgil's Aeneid confuses this Artemon with the writer Artemon of Clazomenae...
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    According to the grammarian Servius (4th and 5th centuries AD), Cyparissus was the son of Telephus, and thus the grandson of Heracles. The myth of Cyparissus...
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    Leto (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the DGRG without Wikisource reference)
    Tegyraeus. Servius, a grammarian who lived during the late 300s AD and early 400s AD, wrote that Artemis was born first because first came the night, whose...
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    Picus (category Characters in the Aeneid)
    through the forest for 6 days until finally she lay down on the bank of the Tiber and died. They had one son, Faunus. According to grammarian Servius, Picus's...
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  • Cinna. According to the 4th-century AD grammarian Servius, he was a "very bad poet" who wrote in praise of the triumvir Mark Antony and was a detractor...
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    for Luna and Sol, the lunar goddess and the solar god, by the Roman poets; the late-antiquity grammarian Servius writes that "Phoebe is Luna, like Phoebus...
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    Orestes (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Maurus Servius Honoratus, an early 4th century grammarian, regards the ashes of Orestes (Cineres Orestis) as one of the seven pignora imperii of the Roman...
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    succeeds Pope Sixtus I as the eighth pope according to Roman Catholic tradition. Aulus Gellius, Roman author and grammarian (approximate date) Lucian...
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  • with the surname include: Daniel Danielis (1635–1696), Belgian composer Servius Danielis or Maurus Servius Honoratus, fourth-century Italian grammarian This...
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  • name, the dill. He and his story is only found in Maurus Servius Honoratus, a Latin grammarian who lived in the fourth and fifth centuries AD. The ancient...
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  • List of ancient Romans (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Isauricus - consul Marcus Servilius Nonianus - consul Servius - grammarian, commentator Servius Tullius - early king Publius Sestius - praetor Lucius...
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    Crinisus (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the DGRG without Wikisource reference)
    mother to the river god Crinisus" (Aeneid, 5.38), and Gaius Julius Hyginus also calls Acestes "son of the river Crinisus" (Fabulae, 273). Servius the Grammarian's...
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  • Pompeius Grammaticus (category Grammarians of Latin)
    Pompeius Grammaticus, also known as Pompeius the Grammarian, was a Latin grammarian of the fifth century, author of a Commentary on Donatus's grammar...
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    Aelius Donatus (category Grammarians of Latin)
    Roman grammarian and teacher of rhetoric. He once taught Jerome, an early Christian Church father who is most known for his translation of the Bible into...
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  • AD 303. Servius Eulogianus, named in a list of soldiers stationed at Ravenna in AD 303. Servius Maurus Honoratus, a celebrated grammarian of the late fourth...
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  • Velius Longus (category Grammarians of Latin)
    Velius Longus (fl. 2nd century AD), Latin grammarian during the reign of Trajan (or Hadrian), author of an extant treatise on orthography (Heinrich Keil...
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  • the island of Cyprus, and survives only in the late works of Servius, a Latin grammarian who lived during the early fifth century AD. Erinoma was the...
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    (2,27.24) Servius' commentary on the Aeneid (6.136) "The context of Suetonius' account of Caligula's interference in the succession of the rex Nemorensis...
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    Aulus Gellius (category Grammarians of Latin)
    Aulus Gellius (c. 125 – after 180 AD) was a Roman author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome. He was educated in Athens...
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  • Nonius Marcellus (category Grammarians of Latin)
    Nonius Marcellus was a Roman grammarian of the 4th or 5th century AD. His only surviving work is the De compendiosa doctrina, a dictionary or encyclopedia...
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