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Marcomannus

A Roman rhetorician of uncertain date.

Works

On Rhetoric

He wrote a work on rhetoric, of which C. Julius Victor made use in compiling his Ars Rhetorica.

Editions

Victor's Ars Rhetorica was first published by A. Mai, from a MS. in the Vatican, written in the 12th century (Rome, 1823), and has been reprinted, with the other scholiasts, in the 5th volume of Orelli's Cicero, p. 195, &c.

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.