positions in Rome, though few enjoyed financial success.

Grammar

Around 100 BC, Dionysius Thrax defined grammar as an "acquired expertise of the general usage of poets and prose writers". He identified six elements to the field:
# Accurate reading aloud
# Explanation of literary devices
# Comments on subject matter
# Comments on etymologies
# Working out analogical regularities
# The critical study of literature.

Nearly two hundred years later,

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