Roman Stoic philosopher who is best known as the teacher and friend of Persius, whose satires he helped to revise for publication after the poet´s death.
Cornutus was born in Leptis, Libya, and resided mostly in Rome.
He was banished by Nero (in 66 or 68) for having indirectly disparaged the emperor´s projected history of the Romans in heroic verse; he thereafter disappeared from history.
He wrote various rhetorical works in both Greek and Latin. His philosophical treatise Theologiae Graecae compendium, still extant, and excerpts from his treatise De enuntiatione vel orthographia are preserved in Cassiodorus.
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