CHARISIUS, FLAVIUS SOSIPATER, Latin gramma rian, flourished about the middle of the 4th century A.D. He was probably an African by birth, summoned to Constantinople to take the place of Euanthius, a learned commentator on Terence. The Ars Grainnnatica of Charisius, part of which is still extant, is valuable as containing excerpts from the earlier writers on gram mar, who are in many cases mentioned by name—Q. Remmius Palaemon, C. Julius Romanus, Cominianus.
The best edition is by H. Keil, Grarnnaatici Latini, i. (1857) ; see also article by G. Gotz in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyklopadie, iii. 2 (1899) ; Teuffel-Schwabe, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng. trans.), § 419, I. 2 ; Frohde, in Jahr. f. Philol., 18 suppl., 567-672 (1892) . New edition by Barwick in Teubner series (1925) .