Terentianus Maurus
a Roman poet, probably lived at the end of the first or the beginning of the second century under Nerva and Trajan, and is perhaps the same person as the Terentianus, the governor of Syene in Egypt, whose praises are celebrated by Martial (1.87; comp. Wernsdorf, Poetac Latini Minores, vol. ii. p. 259). Terentianus was a native of Africa, as we might have inferred from his surname Maurus.
Works
De Literis, Syllabis, Pedibus, Metris
There is still extant a poem of Terentianus, intitled De Literis, Syllabis, Pedibus, Metris, which treats of prosody and the different kinds of metre with much elegance and skill.
Editions
The work is printed in the collection of the ancient grammarians by Putschius, pp. 2383-2450, and in a separate form by Santen and Van Lennep, Traj. ad Rhen. 1825, and by Lachmann, Berol. 1836.
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.