Aelius Festus Aphthonius

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Aelius Festus Aphthonius was a Latin grammarian of the 3rd or 4th century, possibly of African origin, and considered to be one of the most important classical rhetoricians.

He wrote a metrical handbook De Metris, in four books, which was added to the Ars Grammatica of Gaius Marius Victorinus sometime before 400, but not by Victorinus himself.

[edit] See also

• Aphthonius of Antioch

[edit] References

• Keil, Grammatici Latini, vi
• Schultz, Quibus Auctoribus Aelius Festus Aphthonius usus sit (1885)
• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.