…Augustus; of editors such as Marcus Valerius Probus (c. ad 20–105), who made critical editions of Plautus, Terence, Lucretius, Virgil, and Horace; of grammarians such as Verrius Flaccus, the author of a vast work on the meaning of words; of the elder Pliny (ad 23/24–79), whose encyclopaedic Historia naturalis (Natural…
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