CHARISIUS

'Flavius Sosipater Charisius' (fl. 4th century) was a Latin grammarian.
He was probably an African by birth, summoned to Constantinople to take the place of Euanthius, a learned commentator on Terence. The ''Ars Grammatica'' of Charisius, in five books, addressed to his son (not a Roman, as the preface shows), has come down to us in a mutilated condition, the beginning of the first, part of the fourth, and the greater part of the fifth book having been lost. The work, which is merely a compilation, is valuable as containing excerpts from the earlier writers on grammar, who are in many cases mentioned by name: Remmius Palaemon, Julius Romanus, Cominianus.
The edition of H. Keil, in ''Grammatici Latini'', i. (1857), has been superseded by that of K. Berwick (1925).

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★ article by G. Gotz in Pauly-Wissowa, iii. 2 (1899)

★ Teuffel-Schwabe, ''History of Roman Literature'' (Engl. trans), 4I9, I. 2

★ Frohde, in ''Jahr. f. Philol.'', 18 Suppl. (1892), 567-672