Nonius Marcellus

Nonius Marcellus was a Roman grammarian of the 4th or 5th century AD. His only surviving work is the De compendiosa doctrina, a dictionary or encyclopedia in 20 books that shows his interests in antiquarianism and Latin literature from Plautus to Apuleius. Nonius may have come from Africa.^[1]

^ Matthew Bunson, A Dictionary of the Roman Empire (Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 258.

[1] Matthew Bunson, A Dictionary of the Roman Empire (Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 258.

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