Lucius Caecilicus Minutianus Appuleius was a writer of ancient Rome whose surviving works are about grammar. He was commonly acknowledged until the 19th century to be the author of a work de Orthographia, of which considerable fragments were first published by Italian Cardinal and philologist Angelo Mai.Angelo Mai, Juris Civilis Ante-Justinianei Reliquiae, &c, Rome, 1823
They were republished by Friedrich Gotthilf Osann, with two other grammatical works, de Nota Aspirationis and de Diphthongis, which also bear the name of Appuleius.Friedrich Gotthilf Osann, Darmstadt, 1826 Danish philologist Johan Nicolai Madvig showed that the treatise de Orthographia was actually a literary forgery, the work of an impostor in the fifteenth century.Johan Nicolai Madvig, de Apuleii Fragm. de Orthogr., Hafniae, 1829 The two other grammatical treatises above mentioned were probably written in the tenth century.
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