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![X. 3. HISTORY OF LATIN SCHOLARSHIP. 1237. The history of Latin Scholarship falls into four periods, (i) the Hoinan, extending from the death of Ennius (169 B.C.) to the pubhcation of Justinian's Code (529 a.d.); (2) the Mediaeval, pe^o] °^ from 529 to the death of Dante in 1321; (3) the Revival of Zearniug in Italy, from about 1321 to the Sack of Rome in 1527; (4) the Modern period, including the subsequent history of scholarship in Italy, and in France, the Netherlands, England, and Germany, down to the present day. The Roman Age, 169 B.C. to 529 a.d. 1238. The Schools of Alexandria and Pergamum, the Grammar of the Stoics, and the controversy between the adherents of Roman period. Analogy or strict rule (such as Aristophanes of Byzantium, Greek in- and Aristarchus) and those of Anomaly or popular usage (such as Chrysippus and Crates), had a direct influence on grammatical and literary studies in Rome. The representatives of those studies were either actually Greeks or Romans who had received a Greek education. 1239. An interest in the study of literature was aroused in Rome by a follower of the Stoic philosophy, Crates of Mallos, who reached Rome from Pergamum 'sub ipsam Ennii mortem' Ma^os^ (169 B.C.), and gave recitations and lectures on literary subjects. The example set by Crates prompted the publication of a new edition of Naeuius' First Funic War, and the recitation of the Annals of Ennius and (in the next generation) the Satires of Lucilius (Suetonius, De Grammaticis, c. 2). A history of Greek and Roman poetry, especially that of the drama, was written by the tragic poet L. Accius ^ Accius (170—c. 86 B.C.), who was the first to discuss the authorship of certain plays ascribed to Plautus! The foremost scholar of the next generation was L. Aelius Stilo {c. 154—c. 74 B.C.), a teacher of Grammar and Rhetoric, -^ho read the plays of Plautus stiio. with younger men such as Varro and Cicero. Of the 130 plays bearing the name of Plautus, he recognised 25 as genuine. He also commented on the Carmina Salioruni, and wrote on Analogy and Anomaly, and on Syntax. His grammatical and etymological inquiries were partly inspired by his devotion to the Stoic philosophy. In 100 B.C. he left Rome for Rhodes, where he spent two years, and it was probably owing to the influence of the Alexandrian grammarian, Dionysius Thrax, who was then living in Rhodes, that the symbols used by Aristarchus were introduced by Stilo into the criticism of the Latin poets. Much of his lore passed into the pages of Varro and of Verrius Flaccus, of Pliny the Elder,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24750694_0887.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
