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Valentia, ISBN 978-3-936132-31-1. Schönberger, Axel (2009). Die Ars maior des Aelius Donatus. Lateinischer Text und kommentierte deutsche Übersetzung einer

Grammar and the Bible". CiRCE Institute. Retrieved 17 May 2025. Donatus, Aelius. Ars minor, Ars maior. In H. Keil, ed. Grammatici latini. 8 vols. Leipzig:

derives from Aelius Donatus's Ars Maior, though his examples are drawn from elsewhere. It shares four sources with Tatwine's: Donatus, Priscian, Isidore

Codex Sangallensis 878 — grammatical texts, including the Ars minor and Ars maior of Aelius Donatus, the grammar of Priscian, the Etymologiae of Isidore of

Epitoma may have been numbered 15, implying there were once three more books now lost) – compares to the number of books in Donatus Ars Maior and Ars Minor

tenth-century compilation of Priscian's Institutiones grammaticae and Donatus's Ars maior. It is found in three manuscripts: Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum

attributed to Johannes Gutenberg. In particular these include an Ars minor by Donatus, which was a Latin grammar used for centuries in schools, and also

dactylic hexameters. He is also known for works in elegiac couplets such as Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love") and Fasti. His poetry was much imitated during

Servius are extant: a collection of notes on the grammar (Ars grammatica) of Aelius Donatus; a treatise on metrical endings in verse (De finalibus); and

Latin theory emphasises parallels between Ovid, especially his Amores and Ars amatoria, and the lyric of courtly love. The aetas ovidiana that predominated