Our navigation bar is loading . . .

 


 

Jesus Christ Saves Ministries

Helping San Diego, California and beyond since 1997.  




 

JCSM's Top 1000 Christian Sites - Free Traffic Sharing Service!


Do you need volunteer, community service, work, military or court hours?

Click here and add this page to your favorites!

Return to the JCSM Study Center!

Encyclopedia Britannica



FESTUS, SEXTUS POMPEIUS

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 294 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FAT-FLA
FESTUS, SEXTUS POMPEIUS , Roman grammarian, probably flourished in the 2nd century A.D. He made an epitome of the celebrated
work
  De verborum significatu, a valuable treatise alphabetically arranged, written by M. Verrius Flaccus, a freedman and celebrated grammarian who flourished in the reign of
Augustus
 . Festus gives the etymology as well as the meaning of every word; and his
work
  throws considerable light on the language, mythology and antiquities of ancient Rome. He made a few alterations, and inserted some
critical
  remarks of his own. He also omitted such ancient Latin words as had
long
  been obsolete; these he discussed in a
separate
  work now lost, entitled Priscorum verborum cum exemplis. Of Flaccus's work only a few fragments remain, and of Festus's epitome only one
original
  copy is in existence. This MS., the Codex Festi Farnesianus at Naples, only contains the second half of the work (M-V) and that not in a perfect
condition
 . It has been published in facsimile by Thewrewk de Ponor (1890). At the close of the 8th century
Paulus
  Diaconus abridged the abridgment. From his work and the solitary copy of the
original
  attempts have been made with the aid of conjecture to reconstruct the treatise of Festus.
Of the early editions the best are those of J.
Scaliger
  (1565) and Fulvius Ursinus (1581); in modern times, those of C. O. Muller (1839, reprinted 188o) and de Ponor (1889); see J. E. Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, vol. i. (1906).


End of Article: FESTUS, SEXTUS POMPEIUS


If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
<a href="http://jcsm.org/StudyCenter/Encyclopedia/FAT_FLA/FESTUS_SEXTUS_POMPEIUS.html">
FESTUS, SEXTUS POMPEIUS
</a>


(Previous)
FESTUS (? RuFUS or RUFIUS)
(Next)
FETIS, FRANCOIS JOSEPH (17841871)



 
 


JCSM was founded in 1997 and exists to help the community and bring people into a life-changing and productive relationship with Jesus Christ. JCSM offers over 200,000 free web pages, including its weekly inspirational emails that were sent continuously for over a decade.

Jesus Christ Saves Ministries
P.O. Box 9297
San Diego, CA  92169
1-888-887-0417 or Email

JCSM is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization. Copyright © 1997-2012.
 

 

Sponsored Advertisements

Online First Aid and CPR Certification  .  DHA Solutions  .  PB Happy Hour Specials  .  Improvising Made Easy For Guitar and Bass  .  The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained  .  Home Equity Loans  .  First Aid and CPR Online  .  San Diego Music Lessons  .  10,000 Wise Quotes and Spiritual Sayings  .  Blow Up Your Site (For Free!)  .  San Diego DUI Lawyers  .  Jason Gastrich  .  Jordan Faith Gastrich  .  Divorce Secrets Revealed  .  Post Your Ad Link Free  .  San Diego Soccer Training  .  JCSM  .  Download Sermons  .  Custom Religious Banners, Build A Sign  .  Christian Singles Dating  .  Christian T-Shirts  .  Healing Christian Prayer  .  Bumper Authority  .  Personalized Blogs and Email  .  San Diego Haircuts  .  The Do the Math Diet  .  Stop Twitter Spam  .  Christian Conservative Work at Home Network  .  The Website of the Lord