Marcus Verrius Flaccus , fl. 20 BC, Roman grammarian. A freedman, he was appointed by Augustus to educate his grandsons and died at an advanced age during the reign of Tiberius. Of his numerous works, only one, his treatise De verborum significatu [on the meaning of words], survives, in an abridgment by Sextus Pompeius Festus . This work is a source of information about Latin grammar and Roman literature, customs, and myths.
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EVOCATIO DEORUM AND THE DATE OF MARK
Journal of Biblical Literature; 10/1/2005; Kloppenborg, John S; 5661 words;
... shortly after 70 CE.44 Joel Marcus's contention is similar ... destruction of the Temple was "news"; indeed for the Christians ... the most impressive of "news." In the circumstances, for ... Romans, under the command of Marcus Furius Camillus, conquered ... described in the writings of Verrius ...
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