Longus, Ve'lius
a Latin grammarian.
Works
He is known to us from a treatise
De Orthographia, still extant.
Other Works
He was older than Charisius, who refers to his writings twice; first (1.18.2) to some work of which the title has not been preserved, and afterwards (2.9.4) to notes on the second book of the Aeneid.
In a third reference (2.13.149) to certain observations on Lucretius, his name is an interpolation.
The commentary on Virgil is mentioned by Macrobius (
Macr. 3.6) as if it were one of the earlier compilations of this class (
hunc multi alii commentatores secuti sunt), is noticed by Servius also (
Ad Virg. Aen. 10.145), and in the collection of scholiasts upon Virgil published by Mai at Milan in 1818 from a Verona palimpsest. (Suringar,
Hist. Scholiast. Lat. p. 184.)
Editions
The
De Orthographia was brought to light by George Merula, and published by
Fulvius Ursinus in his " Notae ad M. Varronem de Re Rustica," 8vo. Rom. 1587. It will be found in the
" Grammaticae Latinae Auctores Antiqui " of Putschius, 4to. Hanov. 1605, p. 2214-2239.
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