a Roman poet, probably lived at the end of the first or the beginning of the second century
under Nerva and Trajan, and is perhaps the same person as the Terentianus, the governor of
Syene in Egypt, whose praises are celebrated by Martial (1.87;
comp. Wernsdorf,
Poetac Latini Minores,
vol. ii. p. 259). Terentianus was a native of Africa, as we might have inferred from his
surname Maurus.
Works
De Literis, Syllabis, Pedibus, Metris
There is still extant a poem of Terentianus, intitled
De Literis,
Syllabis, Pedibus, Metris, which treats of prosody and the different kinds of metre
with much elegance and skill.
Editions
The work is printed in the collection of the ancient grammarians by Putschius, pp.
2383-2450, and in a separate form by Santen and Van Lennep, Traj. ad Rhen.
1825, and by Lachmann, Berol. 1836.