Tiberius Claudius Donatus

Tiberius Claudius Donatus was a Roman Latin grammarian of whom a single work is known, the Interpretationes Vergilianae, a commentary to Virgil.^[1] He is thought to have flourished in the 430s.^[2] His work, rediscovered in 1438, proved popular in the early modern age; 55 editions of this book were printed between 1488 and 1599.^[3] However, it is almost certainly the case that Donatus wrote very little if any of this commentary, which other texts confirm to be the commentary on the Aeneid written by Suetonius (c. 70 - 130 A.D.).^[4]

References

1. Sarah Amile Landis; Robert Gary Babcock (2009). A New Manuscript of Tiberius Claudius Donatus at UNC-Chapel Hill. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
2. Christopher Michael McDonough; Richard E. Prior; Mark Stansbury (2004). Servius' Commentary on Book Four of Virgil's Aeneid: An Annotated Translation. Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. pp. 18–. ISBN 978-0-86516-514-4.
3. David Scott Wilson-Okamura, Virgil in the Renaissance, CUP, 2010, p. 32
4. http://virgil.org/vitae/