STILO PRAECONINUS, LUCIUS AELIUS, (c. 15474 B.c.)

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STILO PRAECONINUS, LUCIUS AELIUS, (c. 15474 B.c.) , of Lanuvium, the earliest Roman philologist, was a man of distinguished family and belonged to the equestrian order. He was called Stilo (stilus, pen), because he wrote speeches for others, and Praeconinus from his father's profession (praeco, public crier). His aristocratic sympathies were so strong that he voluntarily accompanied Q.

Caecilius

CAECILIUS

Metellus Numidicus into

exile

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap,
consul
- CONSUL
- CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)
, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

. At Rome he divided his time between teaching (although not as a professional schoolmaster) and literary

work

WORK

. His most famous pupils were Varro and Cicero, and amongst his friends were Coelius Antipater, the historian, and

Lucilius

LUCILIUS, GAIUS (c. 18o–ro3 B.C.)

, the satirist, who dedicated their works to him. According to Cicero, who expresses a poor

opinion

OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

of his

powers

POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

as an orator, Stilo was a follower of the Stoic school. Only a few fragments of his works remain. He wrote commentaries on the hymns of the Salii, and (probably) on the Twelve Tables; and investigated the genuineness of the Plautine comedies, of which he recognized 25, four more than were allowed by Varro. It is probable that he was the author of a general glossographical

work

WORK

, dealing with literary, historical and antiquarian questions. The rhetorical treatise Ad Herennium has been attributed to him by some

modern

MODERN

scholars.
See Cicero,

Brutus

BRUTUS (originally an adjective meaning " heavy," "stupid," kindred with Gr. aap(s, cf. Eng. " brute," " brutal")

, 205-207, De legibus, ii. 23, 59; Suetonius, De grammaticis, 2; Gellius Hi. 3, 1. 12; Quintilian, Inst. orat. x., 1, 99; monographs by J. van Heusde (1839) and F. Mentz (1888); Mommsen, Hist. of Rome, bk. iv. ch. 12, 13; J. E. Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship (2nd ed., 4906) ; M. Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Literatur (1898), vol. i.; Teuffel, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 1900), p. 148.

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