FORTUNATIANUS

fortunatianus, atilius, latin grammarian, flourished in the 4th century a.d. 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 [greek: techne] 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. editions of the _ars_ in h. keil, _grammatici latini_, vi., and separately by him (1885).