About Arusianus Messius
Lived 400 – 500. Arusianus Messius was a Roman rhetorician, poet and grammarian.
Arusianus Messius, or Messus was a Latin grammarian who flourished in the 4th century.
Life He was the author of a small extant work Exempla Elocutionum, dedicated to Olybrius and Probinus, consuls for the year 395. It contains an alphabetical list, chiefly of verbs admitting more than one construction, with examples from each of four writers, Virgil, Sallust, Terence and Cicero.
Cassiodorus, the only writer who mentions Arusianus, refers to his work Exempla Elocutionum by the term Quadriga.
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Who was Arusianus Messius?
4th century Latin writer
When was Arusianus Messius born?
Arusianus Messius was born in 400.
When did Arusianus Messius die?
Arusianus Messius died in 500.
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Arusianus Messius was a rhetorician, poet and grammarian.
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Arusianus Messius was Roman.
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