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SOLINUS, GAIUS JULIUS , Latin grammarian and compiler, probably flourished during the first half of the 3rd century A.D. He was the author of Collectanea rerum memorabilium, a description of curiosities in a chorographical framework. Adventus, to whom it is dedicated, is identified with Oclatinius Adventus, consul
part
Pomponius
epitome of Pliny's work
century under the title of Polyhistor (subsequently taken for the author's name). It was popular in the middle ages, hexameter
The commentary by Saumaise in his Plinianae exercitationes (1689) is indispensable; best edition by Mommsen (1895), with valuable introduction on the MSS., the authorities used by Solinus, and subsequent compilers. See also Teuffel, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 1900), 389; and Schanz, Geschithte der romischen Litteratur (1904), iv. I. There is an old English
translation
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