Quintus Terentius Scaurus

Who is Quintus Terentius Scaurus?

Quintus Terentius Scaurus, Latin grammarian, flourished during the reign of Hadrian.

He was the author of an ars grammatica and commentaries on Horace, Virgil's Aeneid and perhaps Plautus. Under his name, two fragments are extant—the longer from his work on orthography, the shorter from another grammatical work. They have both been published in 1878 by Heinrich Keil in the 7th volume of his Grammatici Latini; the only De orthographia has appeared in a new commented edition prepared by Federico Biddau.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed.. Encyclopædia Britannica. Cambridge University Press.