Nonius Marcellus

Nonius Marcellus, a Latin grammarian, of whose life nothing is known. Little can be made of his surname Tuburticensis, but at least we may date him later than the middle of the 2d century, as he frequently copies A. Gellius, and earlier than the sixth, as he is frequently quoted by Priscian. His name is attached to a treatise in eighteen chapters, without arrangement or critical sagacity, but precious as preserving many words in forgotten senses, and passages from books of ancient Latin authors now lost. A good edition is that by Gerlach and Roth (1842); see also Professor Nettleship's Essays in Latin Literature (1885). A collation of the Harleian MS. of Nonius, by the late J. H. Onions (1852-89), was published in 1882 in the Clarendon Press Anecdota. The last seven years of this brilliant young scholar's life were devoted to preparing an edition of the text of Nonius Marcellus for the Clarendon Press.