Asper
- A cognomen of L. Trebonius: L. Trebonius ... insectandis patribus, unde Aspero etiam inditum est cognomen, tribunatum gessit, Liv. 3, 65, 4. —
- II Asper, Aspri (Prob. p. 201 Keil), m., a Latin grammarian, two of whose treatises have come down to us; v. Teuffel, Röm. Lit. § 474, 4.
a Roman grammarian. Works commentaries on Terence and on Virgil
He wrote commentaries on Terence (Schopen, de Terentio et Donato, &c. p. 32, Bonn, 1821) and on Virgil. (Macrob. 3.5; Heyne's account of the ancient Commentators on Virgil, prefixed to his edition of Virgil.) Other fragments
Asper is also quoted in the Scholia on Virgil, discovered by A. Mai. (Virgil. Interp. Vet. Mediol. 1818.) Asper Junior
The Asper who wrote commentaries on Terence must be distinguished from another grammarian of the same name, usually called Asper Junior, but who is equally unknown. Ars Grammatica
Asper Junior is the author of a small work entitled Ars Grammatica. Editions
has been printed in the collections of Grammatici Illustres XII., Paris, 1516; Tres Artis Grammat. Authores, Lips. 1527; Grammat. Lat. Auctores, by Putschius, Hanov. 1605; Corpus Grammat. Lat. by Lindemann, vol. i. Lips. 1831.
had been raised to the consulship, as had also his sons, by Caracalla, but was afterwards, without any apparent cause, deprived of all his honours, and driven out of Rome by the same emperor, A. D. 212. (D. C. 77.5.) We learn from an inscription (apud Fabrett. p. 494), that the consuls in A. D. 212 were both of the name of Julius Asper. Either the father or one of his sons was appointed governor of Asia by Macrinus, but was deprived of this dignity on his journey to the province, on account of some incautious words which offended the emperor. It is usually stated, on the authority of Dio Cassius, that Asper was killed by Elagabalus; but Dio Cassius does not say this. (D. C. 78.22, 79.4.)
a centurion, one of the conspirators against Nero, A. D. 66, met his fate with great firmness, when he was put to death after the detection of the conspiracy. (Tac. Ann. 15.49, 50, 68; D. C. 62.24.)
Aemilius. A Roman grammarian, the author of a commentary on Vergil, now existing in a fragmentary condition, and written probably about A.D. 80. In this he treated systematically Vergil's deviations from ordinary usage in syntax. See Ribbeck's Prolegom. to Vergil, p. 128. Another Asper wrote an Ars Grammatica, printed in Keil's Grammatici Latini, v. 547.