Lucius Caecilicus Minutianus Appuleius

Lucius Caecilicus Minutianus Appuleius was a writer of ancient Rome whose surviving works are about grammar. He was commonly acknowledged until the 19th century to be the author of a work de Orthographia, of which considerable fragments were first published by Italian Cardinal and philologist Angelo Mai.[1]

They were republished by Friedrich Gotthilf Osann, with two other grammatical works, de Nota Aspirationis and de Diphthongis, which also bear the name of Appuleius.[2] Danish philologist Johan Nicolai Madvig showed that the treatise de Orthographia was actually the work of a literary impostor of the fifteenth century.[3] The two other grammatical treatises above mentioned were probably written in the tenth century.

References

1. Angelo Mai, Juris Civilis Ante-Justinianei Reliquiae, &c, Rome, 1823
2. Friedrich Gotthilf Osann, Darmstadt, 1826
3. Johan Nicolai Madvig, de Apuleii Fragm. de Orthogr., Hafniae, 1829

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Appuleius, Caecilicus Minutianus Appuleius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 251.