Evanthius
a rhetorician and grammarian, highly eulogized in the chronicle of St. Jerome, died about A. D. 359, is numbered among the ancient commentators on Terence.
He has sometimes been confounded with Eugraphius, who belongs to a much later period.
Works
Brevis dissertatio de Tragoedia et Comoedia
He is believed by Lindenbrogius to be the author of the Brevis dissertatio de Tragoedia et Comoedia, commonly prefixed to the larger editions of the dramatist.
Further Information
Schofen, De Terentio et Donato ejus interprete, 8vo., Bonn. 1821, p. 37; Rutinus, De Metris Terent. p. 2705, ed. Putsch.
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.