Stilo, Lucius Aelius
Praeconīnus
A celebrated Roman grammarian, one of the teachers of Varro and Cicero. He was one of the
aristocratic party, and accompanied Q. Metellus Numidius into exile in B.C. 100. He was the
author of commentaries on the
Axamenta or songs of the Salian priests (see
Salii), on the Twelve Tables, and of a work called
De Proloquiis. To him has also by some been ascribed the pseudo-Ciceronian
treatise
Ad Herennium. From his eminence as a grammarian he was styled
philologus. See
Philologia.