In Roman mythology , Acestes or Egestes ( Ancient Greek : Ἀκέστης ) was the son of the Sicilian river-god Crinisus by a Dardanian or Trojan woman named Egesta or Segesta.
17-503: According to Servius , this woman Egesta or Segesta was sent by her father, Hippotes or Ipsostratus, to Sicily , that she might not be devoured by the monsters which infested the territory of Troy and which had been sent into the land, because the Trojans had refused to reward Poseidon and Apollo for having built the walls of their city. When Egesta arrived in Sicily, the river-god Crinisus in
34-772: A Roman grammarian and teacher of rhetoric . He once taught Jerome , an early Christian Church father who is most known for his translation of the Bible into Latin, known as the Latin Vulgate . Newer revisions of the Vulgate are still in common use by the Catholic Church . He was the author of a number of professional works, of which several are extant: Donatus was a proponent of an early system of punctuation , consisting of dots placed in three successively higher positions to indicate successively longer pauses, roughly equivalent to
51-493: A farewell gift to Aeneas as he is leaving Sicily. The tradition of Acestes in Dionysius of Halicarnassus , who calls him Aegestus ( Αἴγεστος ), is different, for according to him, the grandfather of Aegestus quarreled with Laomedon , who slew him and gave his daughters to some merchants to convey them to a distant land. A noble Trojan however embarked with them, and married one of them in Sicily, where she subsequently gave birth to
68-484: A son, Aegestus. During the war against Troy Aegestus obtained permission from Priam to return and take part in the contest, and afterwards returned to Sicily, where Aeneas on his arrival was hospitably received by him and Elymus , and built for them the towns of Aegesta and Elyme. The account of Dionysius seems to be nothing but a rationalistic interpretation of the genuine legend. In the Aeneid , Acestes participates in
85-420: A trial of skill in which he shoots his arrow which then bursts into flame as a sign from Jupiter of Acestes's deserved honor. [REDACTED] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William , ed. (1870). "Acestes". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Maurus Servius Honoratus Servius , distinguished as Servius
102-509: Is a comparatively short commentary, attributed to Servius in the superscription in the manuscripts and by other internal evidence. The second class derive from the 10th and 11th centuries, embed the same text in a much expanded commentary. The copious additions are in contrasting style to the original; none of these manuscripts bears Servius' name, and the commentary is known traditionally as Servius auctus or Servius Danielis , from Pierre Daniel who first published it in 1600. "The added matter
119-480: Is undoubtedly ancient, dating from a time but little removed from that of Servius, and is founded to a large extent on historical and antiquarian literature which is now lost. The writer is anonymous and probably a Christian", although one proposed author, Aelius Donatus , was a Christian. A third class of manuscripts, written for the most part in Italy, includes the core text with interpolated scholia , which demonstrate
136-697: The Grammarian ( Latin : Servius or Seruius Grammaticus ), was a late fourth-century and early fifth-century grammarian . He earned a contemporary reputation as the most learned man of his generation in Italy ; he authored a set of commentaries on the works of Virgil . These works, In Tria Virgilii Opera Expositio ("Exposition on Three Works of Virgil"), Commentarii in Virgilium ("Commentaries on Virgil"), Commentarii in Vergilii Opera ("Commentaries on
153-595: The Works of Vergil"), or Vergilii Carmina Commentarii ("Commentaries on the Poems of Virgil"), constituted the first incunable to be printed at Florence , by Bernardo Cennini , in 1471. In the Saturnalia of Macrobius , Servius appears as one of the interlocutors; allusions in that work and a letter from Symmachus to Servius indicate that he was not a convert to Christianity. The name Servius also appears as Seruius owing to
170-527: The author of a commentary ( Interpretationes ) on the Aeneid , who lived about 50 years later. During the Renaissance, Donatus' Vita Vergili is often collected in anthologies of ancient literature. The humanists had interpolated other materials into the Vita Vergili to add details and fill in gaps, and these interpolations are collectively called Donatus auctus ["the augmented Donatus"]. Donatus auctus
187-517: The continued usefulness of the Virgilii Opera Expositio . Besides the Virgilian commentary, other works of Servius are extant: a collection of notes on the grammar ( Ars grammatica ) of Aelius Donatus; a treatise on metrical endings in verse ( De finalibus ); and a tract on the different poetic meters ( De centum metris ). The edition of Georg Thilo and Hermann Hagen (1878–1902), remains
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#1732897810168204-437: The form of a bear or a dog sired with her a son named Acestes, who was afterwards regarded as the hero who had founded the town of Segesta . The funeral games of Aeneas's father Anchises were held there. Those of Aeneas's folk who wished to voyage no further were allowed to remain behind with Acestes and together with Acestes's people they founded the city of Acesta, that is Segesta. The Aeneid cites him as giving wine as
221-479: The modern comma , colon , and full stop . This system remained current through the seventh century, when a more refined system created by Isidore of Seville gained prominence. In "About Comedy and Tragedy" in his Commentary on Terence, Donatus was the first person known to document the system whereby a play is made up of three separate parts: protasis , epitasis , and catastrophe . Aelius Donatus should not be confused with Tiberius Claudius Donatus , also
238-557: The only edition of the whole of Servius' work. Currently in development is the Harvard Servius ( Servianorum in Vergilii Carmina Commentariorum: Editionis Harvardianae ); of the projected five volumes, two have so far appeared: ii (Aeneid 1–2), 1946, and iii (Aeneid 3–5), 1965. Aelius Donatus Aelius Donatus ( English: / d oʊ ˈ n eɪ t ə s / ; fl. mid-fourth century AD) was
255-684: The unity of the Latin letters V and U from antiquity until as late as the 18th century. Many medieval manuscripts of Servius's commentaries give him the praenomen Marius or Maurus and the cognomen Honoratus . The authenticity of these names—shared by Christian saints—is now doubted. The commentary on Virgil 's Aeneid — In Vergilii Aeneidem Commentarii , In Aeneida , Commentarii in Vergilii Aeneidem , In Vergilii Aeneidos Libros I–III Commentarii , or Ad Aen. —survives in two distinct manuscript traditions. The first
272-659: The versions of Vita Vergili . This Vita depicted Vergil as a wise scholar and expert in science, while disregarding the anecdotes portraying Vergil as a magician, which were added during the medieval period in other Vita . Donatus auctus contains one oft-quoted poem "sic vos non vobis", which was recorded in Codex Salmasianus . See section 251, 252 in I.1 of Latin Anthology (B. G. Teubner, 1982). The version recorded in Codex Salmasianus contained just two lines; it
289-678: Was added some time around 1426–37, between the first and second redactions of the De scriptoribus illustribus latinae linguae ["On Famous Writers of the Latin Language"] of Sicco Polenton , and it became the standard account of Virgil's life up until the 18th century. The text and translation is found in Ziolkowski and Putnam (2008: II.A.37, 345–69), with italics for the Donatus auctus and non-italics for Vita Vergili . See for an evolutionary tree for all
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