Aquila Romanus
a rhetorician, who lived after Alexander Numenius but before Julius Rufinianus, probably in the third century after Christ.
Works
de Figuris Sententiarum et Elocutionis
He was the author of a small work intitled, de Figuris Sententiarum et Elocutionis, which is usually printed with Rutilius Lupus.
Rufinianus states, that Aquila took the materials of this work from one of Alexander Numenius on the same subject. [See p. 123a.]
Editions
The best edition is by Ruhnken, Lugd. Bat. 1768, reprinted with additional notes by Frotscher, Lips. 1831.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.