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Cesio Basso e il De versuum generibus di Diomede
2006-08-23T06:54:33Z
Abstract
The chapter de versuum generibus in the third book of Diomedes’ Ars grammatica has a great importance for studies on the Latin grammar and metric tradition because, in its wealth of analysis and observations, retains us the content of the fifth book of Carisius’ Ars and many fragments of Varro. The reading of Diomedes is very challenging, as demonstrated by Schultz, because its structure is based on the interlacement of four different sources. The interpretation of Schultz must be corrected, because it relegates to a marginal role the De metris of Cesius Bassus, that was, on the arguments and examples, a primary reference text for the same Diomedes.