Crates of Mallos

Role: grammarian · First appears: Grammarians 2

Life events

• Crates of Mallos introduced the study of grammar at Rome.(Grammarians 2 · 📍 Rome)
  • “Crates of Mallos, then, was, in our opinion, the first who introduced the study of grammar at Rome.”
• Attalus sent Crates of Mallos as an envoy to the senate.(Grammarians 2)
  • With: Attalus
  • “having been sent by king Attalus as envoy to the senate in the interval between the second and third Punic wars”
• Crates of Mallos fell into an open sewer and broke his leg.(Grammarians 2 · 📍 the Palatine quarter of the city)
  • “had the misfortune to fall into an open sewer in the Palatine quarter of the city, and broke his leg.”
• Crates of Mallos gave frequent lectures and instructed his hearers.(Grammarians 2)
  • “during the whole period of his embassy and convalescence, he gave frequent lectures, taking much pains to instruct his hearers”

Grammarians 2

• employer: Attalus “having been sent by king Attalus as envoy to the senate in the interval between the second and third Punic wars”
• with Aristarchus (They were contemporaries.) “He was cotemporary with Aristarchus”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.