Virgilius Maro Grammaticus - was he a grammarian?

该项目的目的是研究在何种程度上现存的希伯诺-拉丁语法学家Virgilius Maro的作品，他写于公元650年，应该被理解为晚期古代语法理论背景和传统中的严肃出版物，作为这一学科的模仿，作为隐藏的寓言，或者仅仅是废话。而后来的语法学家，根植于古老的传统，（如所谓的多纳图斯Ortigraphus）当然引用语法学家Virgilius作为专家来源，现代学者对作者的“实际”和“真实”意图困惑了大约150年。在这个过程中，维吉留斯依次以一个愚蠢的开玩笑者，一个博学的模仿者，甚至是一个（原始卡巴拉的）智慧老师的身份出现。文本本身似乎是足够安全的（有两个现代批判版本），但直到今天还缺乏评论。也没有一个连贯的专题研究，提出了工作的中心方面；到目前为止，仅有的捐款是具体的，而且在某种程度上带有倾向性。为了对上述问题给出有根据的答案，这两本现存的作品，即所谓的《Epitomae》和《Epistolae》，将被检查以参考古代语法的形式和内容：首先，对八部书信进行彻底的分析，这八部书信涵盖了传统的八个词类（名词、代词、动词、形容词、分词、连词、介词和感叹词），将回答Virgilius对古代语法及其问题有多熟悉，以及他可能在哪里加入了补充、批评甚至模仿。在此之后，相当散文式的Epitomae，其中一部分相当晦涩，将在主要与内容相关的评论中加以阐明，以解决是否有严重的语法（或其他？）问题隐藏在通常看来，虚构和/或荒谬的细节背后。结果将总结在第一次科学的全面介绍维吉留斯·马罗，重点是语法的历史。

The objective of the project is to examine to what extent the extant works of the Hiberno-Latin grammarian Virgilius Maro, who wrote c. 650 CE, should be understood as serious publications in the context and tradition of late antique grammatical theory, as parodies of this discipline, as hidden allegories, or as mere nonsense. While subsequent grammarians, rooted in ancient tradition, (such as the so-called Donatus Ortigraphus) as a matter of course quote the grammarian Virgilius as an expert source, modern scholars have puzzled over the "actual" and "true" intentions of the author for c. 150 years. In this process Virgilius in turn appears as a silly jokester, an erudite parodist, or even as a (proto-Kabbalistic) teacher of wisdom. The text itself seems to be sufficiently secure (there are two modern critical editions), but to this day a commentary is lacking. Neither is there a coherent monographic study which presents the central aspects of the work; so far, the only contributions are specific and, in part, tendentious. In order to give well-grounded answers to the questions outlined above the two extant works, the so-called Epitomae and Epistolae, will be examined for references to ancient grammar regarding form and content: first, a thorough analysis of the eight Epistolae, which cover the traditional eight parts of speech (noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, participle, conjunction, preposition, and interjection), will answer the question how familiar Virgilius was with ancient grammar and its problems, and where he possibly included additions, criticism or even parody. Following this, the rather essayistic Epitomae, which are in part considerably more obscure, will be elucidated in a mainly content-related commentary so as to resolve the question whether there are serious grammatical (or other?) issues hidden behind the often, as it seems, fictitious and/or nonsensical details. The results will be summarized in the first scientific overall presentation of Virgilius Maro, focusing on the history of grammar.