De Oratione et Partibus Orationis et
Vario Genere Metrorum libri IIIthe author of a grammatical treatise
De Oratione et Partibus
Orationis et Vario Genere Metrorum libri III. We are entirely ignorant of his
history, but since he is frequently quoted by Priscian (
e. g. lib. ix.
pp. 861, 870, lib. 10.879, 889, 892), he must have lived before the commencement of the 6th
century. The work is dedicated to a certain Athanasius, of whom we know nothing whatsoever.
It is remarked elsewhere [
CHARISIUS], that a close correspondence
may be detected between the above work and many passages in the
Institutiones Grammaticae of Charisius, and the same remark applies to Maximus
Victorinus.
Editions
Diomedes was first published in a collection of Latin Grammarians printed at Venice
by Nic. Jenson, about 1476.It is to be found in the Grammaticae Latinae Auctores Antiqui of Putschius, 4to.
Hanov. 1605, pp. 170-527.