Sulpicius Apollinaris

a contemporary of A. Gellius, was a learned grammarian, whom Gellius frequently cites with the greatest respect. He calls him, on one occasion " vir praestanti literarum scientia," and on another, " homo memoriae nostrae doctissimus." (Gel. 2.16, 4.17, 13.17, 15.5.) There are two poems in the Latin Anthology, purporting to be written by Sulpicius of Carthage, whom some writers identify with the above-named Sulpicius Apollinaris. One of these poems consists of seventy-two lies, giving the argument of the twelve books of Virgil's Aeneid, six lines being devoted to each book (Anthol. Lat. Nos. 222, 223, ed. Meyer; Donatus, Vita Virgilii). The contemporary of Gellius is probably the same person as the Sulpicius Apollinaris who taught the emperor Pertinax in his youth. (Capitol. Pertin. 1.)