{"topic":"aquila-romanus","count":1,"articles":[{"id":"britannica-11-aquila-romanus","work_id":"britannica-11","title":"Aquila Romanus","normalized_title":"aquila-romanus","slug":"aquila-romanus","aliases":[],"subtitle":"Internet Archive OCR import","body_text":"AQUILA ROMANUS. a Latin grammarian who flourished in the second half of the 3rd century A.D. He was the author of an extant treatise De Figuris Sententiantm et Elocuiionii, written as an instalment of a complete rhetorical handbook for the use of a young and eager correspondent. While recommending Demosthenes and Cicero as models, he takes his own examples almost exclusively from Cicero. His treatise is really adapted from that by Alexander, son of Numenius, as is expressly stated by Julius Rufinianus, who brought out a supplementary treatise, augmented by material from other sources. Aquila 's style is harsh and careless, and the Latin is inferior. Halm, Rketorts Latini minorcs (1863) ; Wensch, De Aquila Romano (1861).","body_html":"<p>AQUILA ROMANUS. a Latin grammarian who flourished in the second half of the 3rd century A.D. He was the author of an extant treatise De Figuris Sententiantm et Elocuiionii, written as an instalment of a complete rhetorical handbook for the use of a young and eager correspondent. While recommending Demosthenes and Cicero as models, he takes his own examples almost exclusively from Cicero. His treatise is really adapted from that by Alexander, son of Numenius, as is expressly stated by Julius Rufinianus, who brought out a supplementary treatise, augmented by material from other sources. Aquila &#x27;s style is harsh and careless, and the Latin is inferior. Halm, Rketorts Latini minorcs (1863) ; Wensch, De Aquila Romano (1861).</p>","volume_id":"britannica-11-v2","page_range_label":"Vol. 2, pp. 249-249","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/page/n270/mode/1up","text_source_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/encyclopaediabri02chisrich_djvu.txt","scan_source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri02chisrich","quality_status":"ocr-imported-page-aligned","parser_version":"ia-djvu-xml-v1","page_refs":[{"page_number":"249","label":"p. 249","image_url":"/source-assets/scans/britannica-11/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/encyclopaediabri02chisrich_0271.jpg","source_image_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/encyclopaediabri02chisrich_jp2.zip/encyclopaediabri02chisrich_jp2%2Fencyclopaediabri02chisrich_0271.jp2&ext=jpg","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/page/n270/mode/1up"}],"work":{"id":"britannica-11","slug":"britannica-11","title":"Encyclopaedia Britannica","short_title":"Britannica 11th","edition":"11th edition","publisher":"Cambridge University Press","publication_start_year":1910,"publication_end_year":1911,"language":"English","country":"United Kingdom / United States","copyright_status_note":"First published before 1931; treated as public domain in the United States. 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