Sextus Pompeius Festus (Pompeius Festus, Sextus)( Rome grammars)
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Pompeius Festus, Sextus; Pompeius Festus, Sextus, II in., A Roman grammarian. Compiled abridged version of an extensive vocabulary Beppu Flaccus On meanings of words (De verborum significatu) in 20 books. Of these transcriptions preserved, and it is not full, part II - from M to V. About all the product provides an even shorter version of Aulus Deacon VIII in. n. e. who come to us entirely. Job PF, even in this incomplete form, is of great value as a treasury of quotations Roman authors archaic era, which are not preserved in other sources.
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