Background
He flourished 4th century AD in Rome.
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He flourished 4th century AD in Rome.
As an adulescens Servius was one of the speakers in the Saturnalia of Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, and at least the greater part of his life was spent in Rome. His commentary on Virgil is extant in two versions, a longer and a shorter. The longer and anonymous version, first printed in 1600 in an edition by Pierre Daniel, consists of Servius’ own work—somewhat altered—in which he sought to meet the needs of schools and paid special, but not exclusive, attention to grammatical and stylistic points. With it are incorporated some valuable additions, in the main from a commentary—perhaps those parts of the commentary by Aelius Donatus which were not used by Servius—which mostly concern Virgil’s rhetoric, mythology, and subject matter. These are a precious source of knowledge about Roman antiquities.
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 the only edition of the whole of Servius' work. Currently in development is the Harvard Servius (Servianorum in Vergili Carmina Commentariorum Editio Harvardiana); of the projected five volumes, two have so far appeared, i (Aeneid 1-2), 1946; ii (Aeneid 3-5), 1965, and the project continues glacially.
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He is one of the interlocutors in the Saturnalia of Macrobius, and allusions in that work and a letter from Symmachus to Servius show that he was a pagan.
