{{Short description|Roman grammarian}} '''Velius Longus''' (fl. 2nd century AD), [[Latin]] [[Philologist|grammarian]] during the reign of [[Trajan]] (or [[Hadrian]]), author of an extant treatise on [[orthography]] ([[Heinrich Keil]], ''Grammatici Latini'', vii). He is mentioned by [[Macrobius]] ([https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Macrobius/Saturnalia/3*.html#6.6 ''Saturnalia'', iii.6.6]) and [[Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]] ([https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0053:book=10:commline=245 ''Comm. on Aen.'' x.245]) as a commentator on [[Virgil]].<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Velius Longus|volume=27|page=978}}</ref> He is also mentioned by [[Aulus Gellius]] (''Noctes Atticae'', 18.9.4).
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==External links== *[http://kaali.linguist.jussieu.fr/CGL/index.jsp Corpus Grammaticorum Latinorum: complete texts and full bibliography]
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