Marcus Pomponius Marcellus

Role: gramm arian and critic of the Latin tongue · First appears: Grammarians 22

Grammarians 22

• rivals with Cassius Severus “persisted in charging his adversary with making a solecism, until Cassius Severus appealed to the judges to grant an adjournment until his client should produce another grammarian”
• rivals with Atteius Capito “Atteius Capito affirmed, ‘that if it was not Latin, at least it would be so in time to come;’ ‘Capito is wrong,’ cried Marcellus”
• rivals with Tiberius “On another occasion, when he had found fault with some expression in a speech made by Tiberius”

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