1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
ARUSIANUS MESSIUS, or MESSUS, Latin grammarian, flourished in the 4th century A.D. He was the author of a small extant work Exempla Elocutionum, dedicated to Olybrius and Probinus, consuls for the year 395. It contains an alphabetical ARVAL BROTHERS— ARYAN list, chiefly of verb* admitting more than one construction, with examples from each of the four writers, Virgil, Sallust, Terence and Cicero. Cassiodorui, the only writer who mentions Arusianus, refers to it by the term Quadriga. See Keil. Grammatitt Lot int. vi…
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