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From the beginning, Roman scholarship imitated Greek: Hellenistic techniques were applied to the treatment of Latin texts, and Latin grammar adopted Greek categories and terminology. Learned Greeks such as Tyrannion, Alexander Polyhistor, and Parthenius were brought to Rome as prisoners in the Mithradatic Wars. Even before that, as early as about 100 bc, the Roman knight Lucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus had been teaching and writing about Latin grammar. Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 bc) by his vast learning and prodigious output influenced almost every branch of scholarship; of his 25 books about the Latin language, books v to x survive in ...(100 of 12151 words)