biography
pronunciation:
[donaytus]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.300–c.399)
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| biography:
| Latin grammarian and rhetorician, who taught in Rome AD c.360. His treatises on Latin grammar were in the Middle Ages the only textbooks used in schools, so that Donat in W Europe came to mean a ‘grammar book’. He also wrote commentaries on Terence and Virgil. |
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