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Aemilius Asper, Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 grammarian, possibly lived in the 1st century or late 2nd century. He wrote commentaries on Terence
Terence

Publius Terentius Afer , better known as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC, and he died young probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome....
, Sallust
Sallust

For the philosopher, see Sallustius; for other uses, see Sallust .Gaius Sallustius Crispus, generally known simply as Sallust, , a Roman Republic historian, belonged to a well-known plebeian family, and was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines....
 and Virgil
Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro was a classical Roman poet, best known for three major works?the Bucolics , the Georgics and the Aeneid?although several Appendix Vergiliana are also attributed to him....
 dealing with content and form, and including parallels with other authors. Numerous fragments of the commentary on Virgil show that as both critic and commentator he possessed good judgment and taste. They are printed in Keil, Probi in Vergilii Bucolica Commentarius (1848); see also Suringar, Historia Critica Scholiastarum Latinum (1834); Grafenhan, Geschichte der klassischen Philologie im Alterthum, iv. Two short grammatical treatises, extant under the name of Asper, and of very little value, have nothing to do with the commentator, but belong to a much later date; the time of Priscian
Priscian

Priscianus Caesariensis , commonly known as Priscian, was a Latin Latin grammar. He wrote the Institutiones grammaticae on the subject....
 (6th century).






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Aemilius Asper, Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 grammarian, possibly lived in the 1st century or late 2nd century. He wrote commentaries on Terence
Terence

Publius Terentius Afer , better known as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC, and he died young probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome....
, Sallust
Sallust

For the philosopher, see Sallustius; for other uses, see Sallust .Gaius Sallustius Crispus, generally known simply as Sallust, , a Roman Republic historian, belonged to a well-known plebeian family, and was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines....
 and Virgil
Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro was a classical Roman poet, best known for three major works?the Bucolics , the Georgics and the Aeneid?although several Appendix Vergiliana are also attributed to him....
 dealing with content and form, and including parallels with other authors. Numerous fragments of the commentary on Virgil show that as both critic and commentator he possessed good judgment and taste. They are printed in Keil, Probi in Vergilii Bucolica Commentarius (1848); see also Suringar, Historia Critica Scholiastarum Latinum (1834); Grafenhan, Geschichte der klassischen Philologie im Alterthum, iv. Two short grammatical treatises, extant under the name of Asper, and of very little value, have nothing to do with the commentator, but belong to a much later date; the time of Priscian
Priscian

Priscianus Caesariensis , commonly known as Priscian, was a Latin Latin grammar. He wrote the Institutiones grammaticae on the subject....
 (6th century). Both are printed in Keil, Grammatici Latini. See also Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur, sect. 598.

Aelius Donatus
Aelius Donatus

Aelius Donatus was a Ancient Rome grammarian and teacher of rhetoric. The only fact known regarding his life is that he was the tutor of St. Jerome....
 is thought to have borrowed freely from Asper.

An ars
Ars

Ars , or Arsim is a mildly tongue-in-cheek, derogatory/self-deprecating Hebrew slang term describing the Israeli stereotype of a person of bad manners, flashy jewelry, and overall rudeness, associated with "low class" Sephardi or Mizrahi Jews, usually of Moroccan background....
 listed under his name is apocryphal, datable to the time of Priscian
Priscian

Priscianus Caesariensis , commonly known as Priscian, was a Latin Latin grammar. He wrote the Institutiones grammaticae on the subject....
 in the 6th century.

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