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Born c.95 • Constantine • Algeria
Died c.166 • Rome? • Italy
Subjects Of Study Latin language • grammar
George Of Trebizond
Byzantine humanist
Quintilian
Roman rhetorician
Gaius Asinius Pollio
Roman historian and orator
Herodes Atticus, marble bust by an unknown artist; in the Louvre, Paris
Herodes Atticus
Greek orator and author
Publius Nigidius Figulus
Roman author
Aelius Donatus
Roman grammarian
Eumenius
Roman orator and teacher
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman author
Nonius Marcellus
Latin grammarian and lexicographer
Isocrates
Greek orator and rhetorician
Lorenzo Valla
Italian humanist
Julius Caesar Scaliger
French scholar
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Dio Chrysostom
Greek philosopher
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Greek historian
Libanius
Greek rhetorician
Chrysoloras
Manuel Chrysoloras
Greek scholar
John of Garland
English grammarian and poet
Madvig, drawing by Emilius-Ditlev Baerentzen, c. 1845; in Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Johan Nicolai Madvig
Danish scholar
Caecilius of Calacte
Greek rhetorician