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Quintus Remmius Palaemon, Roman
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
 grammarian, a native of Vicentia, lived in the reigns of Tiberius
Tiberius

Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, born Tiberius Claudius Nero , was the second Roman Emperor, from the death of Augustus in AD 14 until his own death in 37....
 and Claudius
Claudius

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I was the fourth Roman Emperor, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24, AD 41 to his death in AD 54....
.

From Suetonius (De grammaticis, 23) we learn that he was originally a slave
Slavery

Slavery is a form of forced labor where a person is compelled to Labor for another . Slaves are held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase, or birth, and are deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to receive Remuneration in return for their labor....
 who obtained his freedom and taught grammar at Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
. Though a man of profligate and arrogant character, he enjoyed a great reputation as a teacher; Quintilian
Quintilian

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was a Roman Empire rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in Middle ages schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing....
 and Persius
Aulus Persius Flaccus

Persius, in full Aulus Persius Flaccus , was a Ancient Rome poet and satirist of Etruscan civilization origin. In his works, poems and satires, he shows a Stoicism wisdom and a strong criticism for the abuses of his contemporaries....
 are said to have been his pupils. His lost Ars (Juvenal, Satire VII, 215), a system of grammar
Grammar

Grammar is the field of linguistics that covers the conventions governing the use of any given natural language. It includes morphology and syntax, often complemented by phonetics, phonology, semantics, and pragmatics....
 much used in his own time and largely drawn upon by later grammarians, contained rules for correct diction
Diction

Diction, in its original, primary meaning, refers to the writer's or the speaker's distinctive vocabulary choices and style of expression. A secondary, more common meaning of "diction" is more precisely expressed with the word enunciation ? the art of speaking clearly so that each word is clearly heard and understood to its fullest complexity...
, illustrative quotations and treated of barbarisms and solecism
Solecism

A solecism is a grammatical mistake or absurdity. The word solecism was originally used by the Greeks for mistakes in their language. Ancient Ancient Athens considered the dialect of the inhabitants of their colony Soli, Cilicia in Cilicia to be a corrupted form of their own pure Attic Greek dialect, full of "solecisms"....
s (Juvenal vi.






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Quintus Remmius Palaemon, Roman
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
 grammarian, a native of Vicentia, lived in the reigns of Tiberius
Tiberius

Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, born Tiberius Claudius Nero , was the second Roman Emperor, from the death of Augustus in AD 14 until his own death in 37....
 and Claudius
Claudius

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I was the fourth Roman Emperor, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24, AD 41 to his death in AD 54....
.

From Suetonius (De grammaticis, 23) we learn that he was originally a slave
Slavery

Slavery is a form of forced labor where a person is compelled to Labor for another . Slaves are held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase, or birth, and are deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to receive Remuneration in return for their labor....
 who obtained his freedom and taught grammar at Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
. Though a man of profligate and arrogant character, he enjoyed a great reputation as a teacher; Quintilian
Quintilian

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was a Roman Empire rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in Middle ages schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing....
 and Persius
Aulus Persius Flaccus

Persius, in full Aulus Persius Flaccus , was a Ancient Rome poet and satirist of Etruscan civilization origin. In his works, poems and satires, he shows a Stoicism wisdom and a strong criticism for the abuses of his contemporaries....
 are said to have been his pupils. His lost Ars (Juvenal, Satire VII, 215), a system of grammar
Grammar

Grammar is the field of linguistics that covers the conventions governing the use of any given natural language. It includes morphology and syntax, often complemented by phonetics, phonology, semantics, and pragmatics....
 much used in his own time and largely drawn upon by later grammarians, contained rules for correct diction
Diction

Diction, in its original, primary meaning, refers to the writer's or the speaker's distinctive vocabulary choices and style of expression. A secondary, more common meaning of "diction" is more precisely expressed with the word enunciation ? the art of speaking clearly so that each word is clearly heard and understood to its fullest complexity...
, illustrative quotations and treated of barbarisms and solecism
Solecism

A solecism is a grammatical mistake or absurdity. The word solecism was originally used by the Greeks for mistakes in their language. Ancient Ancient Athens considered the dialect of the inhabitants of their colony Soli, Cilicia in Cilicia to be a corrupted form of their own pure Attic Greek dialect, full of "solecisms"....
s (Juvenal vi. 452). An extant Ars grammatica
Ars grammatica

An Ars grammatica is a generic or proper title for surveys of Latin Grammar.Extant works known as Ars grammatica have been written by...
 (discovered by Jovianus Pontanus
Jovianus Pontanus

Iovianus Pontanus was an Italy Humanism and poet....
 in the 15th century) and other unimportant treatises on similar subjects have been wrongly ascribed to him.

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