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Commentary

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Author(s): Guthmüller, Bodo (Marburg/Lahn RWG) | Marshall, Peter K. (Venice) | Eleuteri, Paolo (Venice)

Guthmüller, Bodo (Marburg/Lahn RWG) [German version] Commentary (CT) Commentary, the continuous explication of a text, was a widespread phenomenon even in Antiquity. The earliest fully extant ancient commentary on a Latin work was that of the grammarian Servius on Virgil (early 5th cent. AD). Its impact extended into the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The influence of the history of genres is apparent in the linguistic and factual analysis of words and phrases and in the citing of sources and parallel…

Source: Brill’s New Pauly