Cloatius Verus

Cloatius Verus was a Roman grammarian who lived in the 1st century.

Biography

He was born and lived in first century Rome.

Career

He is chiefly notable for being a grammarian and for having written several treatises on the meanings of Greek words and on Latin words derived from Greek language.

In the Oxford Classical Dictionary, he is described thus: "Augustan lexicographer and antiquarian who wrote on the meanings of Greek words and on Latin words derived from Greek. He is probably the ‘Cloatius’ whom *Verrius Flaccus cites (with L. *Aelius) on Latin sacral terms."