Terentianus

Tĕrentĭānus, v. Terentius, B.

Terentiānus, a, um, s. Terentius.

1 Tĕrentĭānus, (14) a, um, ¶ 1 de Térence (poète) : Terentianus Chremes Cic. Fin. 1, 3, le Chrémès de Térence ; ille Terentianus ipse se puniens Cic. Tusc. 3, 65, ce personnage de Térence qui se punit lui-même = Hautontimorumenos ¶ 2 de Térentius Varron : Liv. 23, 32, 16.

2 Tĕrentĭānus, ī, m. , L. Térentianus Maurus [grammairien].

Terentia'nus Maurus

a Roman poet, probably lived at the end of the first or the beginning of the second century under Nerva and Trajan, and is perhaps the same person as the Terentianus, the governor of Syene in Egypt, whose praises are celebrated by Martial (1.87; comp. Wernsdorf, Poetac Latini Minores, vol. ii. p. 259). Terentianus was a native of Africa, as we might have inferred from his surname Maurus. Works De Literis, Syllabis, Pedibus, Metris

There is still extant a poem of Terentianus, intitled De Literis, Syllabis, Pedibus, Metris, which treats of prosody and the different kinds of metre with much elegance and skill. Editions

The work is printed in the collection of the ancient grammarians by Putschius, pp. 2383-2450, and in a separate form by Santen and Van Lennep, Traj. ad Rhen. 1825, and by Lachmann, Berol. 1836.