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Flourished c.98 BCE - 45 BCE
Subjects Of Study Pythagoreanism • Latin language • Roman religion • grammar
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August Schleicher
August Schleicher
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Manuel Chrysoloras
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Madvig, drawing by Emilius-Ditlev Baerentzen, c. 1845; in Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
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Aelfric
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Theodosius I
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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, woodcut, 1537.
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Roman scholar, philosopher, and statesman
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Marcus Terentius Varro
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Tyrannius Rufinus
Roman priest and writer
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Lucius Livius Andronicus
Roman author
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Ienăchiƫă Văcărescu
Romanian author
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Lindley Murray
American grammarian
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, shown in dark robes and cap, writing with a quill at a desk, after Quinten Massijs, oil on panel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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