Marcellus, M. Pomponius
a grammarian, who sometimes also pleaded causes, lived in the reign of Tiberius, and was celebrated as a rigid purist in language. There is an anecdote respecting this Marcellus and the emperor Tiberius related in Vol. I. p. 599b. (Suet. de Illius. Gramm. 22; D. C. 57.17.)
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