# Velius Longus

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Roman grammarian

**Velius Longus** (fl. 2nd century AD), [Latin](/source/Latin) [grammarian](/source/Philologist) during the reign of [Trajan](/source/Trajan) (or [Hadrian](/source/Hadrian)), author of an extant treatise on [orthography](/source/Orthography) ([Heinrich Keil](/source/Heinrich_Keil), *Grammatici Latini*, vii). He is mentioned by [Macrobius](/source/Macrobius) ([*Saturnalia*, iii.6.6](https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Macrobius/Saturnalia/3*.html#6.6)) and [Servius](/source/Maurus_Servius_Honoratus) ([*Comm. on Aen.* x.245](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0053:book=10:commline=245)) as a commentator on [Virgil](/source/Virgil).[1] He is also mentioned by [Aulus Gellius](/source/Aulus_Gellius) (*Noctes Atticae*, 18.9.4).

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-EB1911_1-0)** One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): [Chisholm, Hugh](/source/Hugh_Chisholm), ed. (1911). "[Velius Longus](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Velius_Longus)". *[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition)*. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 978.

## External links

- [Corpus Grammaticorum Latinorum: complete texts and full bibliography](http://kaali.linguist.jussieu.fr/CGL/index.jsp)

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