Atilius Fortunatianus

Atilius Fortunatianus (flourished in the 4th century A.D.) was a Latin grammarian. He was the author of a treatise on metres, dedicated to one of his pupils, a youth of senatorial rank, who desired to be instructed in the Horatian metres. The manual opens with a discussion of the fundamental ideas of metre and the chief rules of prosody, and ends with a detailed analysis of the metres of Horace. The chief authorities used are Caesius Bassus and the Latin adaptation by Juba the grammarian of the Τέχνη of Heliodorus. Fortunatianus being a common name in the African provinces, it is probable that the author was a countryman of Juba, Terentianus Maurus and Victorinus.

There is an edition of his Ars in H. Keil, Grammatici Latini, vi.; also published by him separately (1885).

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Fortunatianus, Atilius". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.