1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Velius Longus

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19482831911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 27 — Velius Longus

VELIUS LONGUS (2nd cent, A.D.), Latin grammarian during the reign of Trajan (or Hadrian), author of an extant treatise on Orthography (H. Keil, Grammatici Latini, vii.). He is mentioned by Macrobius (Saturnalia, iii. 6, 6) and Servius (on Aen. x. 245) as a commentator on Virgil.

See M. Schanz, Geschichte der römischen Litteratur, iv. 1 (1904); Teuffel, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 1900), 343, 2.