CAPER

caper, flavius, latin grammarian, flourished during the and century. he devoted special attention to the early latin writers, and is highly spoken of by priscian. caper was the author of two works--_de lingua latina_ and _de dubiis generibus_. these works in their original form are lost; but two short treatises entitled _de orthographia_ and _de verbis dubiis_ have come down to us under his name, probably excerpts from the original works, with later additions by an unknown writer. see f. osann, _de flavio capro_ (1849), and review by w. christ in _philologus_, xviii. 165-170 (1862), where several editions of other important grammarians are noticed; g. keil, "de flavio grammatico," in _dissertationes halenses_, x. (1889); text in h. keil's _grammatici latini_, vii.