Marcus Verrius Flaccus (Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476)
Early Life
The biographer Suetonius supplies the basic biographical information about Marcus Verrius Flaccus (VEHR-ee-uhs FLAK-uhs) in his essay De grammaticis et rhetoribus (c. 120 c.e.; Lives of the Grammarians). This work by Suetonius, a discussion of teachers active in Rome during the last half of the first century b.c.e., includes the statement “Marcus Verrius Flaccus the freedman was especially renowned for his method of teaching.” Nothing of Verrius’s background is known except for his freedman’s status and the probable name of his former master,...
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