CORNUTUS, LUCIUS ANNAEUS, Stoic philosopher, flourished in the reign of Nero. He was a native of Leptis in Libya, but resided for the most part in Rome. He is best known as the teacher and friend of Persius, whose satires he revised for publication after the poet's death, but handed them over to Cae sius Bassus to edit, at the special request of the latter. He was banished by Nero (in 66 or 68) for having indirectly disparaged the emperor's projected history of the Romans in heroic verse (Dio Cassius, lxii. 29), and disappears from history. He was the author of various rhetorical works in both Greek and Latin (`ParopuKai TEXvae, De figuris sententiarum). Another rhetori cian, also named Cornutus, who flourished A.D. 200-250 (or in the second half of the 2nd century) was the author of a treatise TOU 1roX cnKoi Xoyov (ed. J. Graeven, 1890). A philosoph ical treatise, Theologiae Graecae compendium, is still extant. It is a manual of Stoic etymological interpretation of popular myth ology (ed. C. Lang, 1881) . Simplicius and Porphyry refer to his commentary on the Categories of Aristotle, whose philosophy he is said to have defended against an opponent Athenodorus in a treatise 'Avntypac/l ran 'A6riv63copov. Excerpts from his trea tise De enuntiatione vel ortliographia are preserved in Cassi odorus. The so-called Disticha Cornuti (ed. Liebl, Straubing, 1888) belong to the late middle ages.
See G. Martini, De L. Annaeo Cornuto (1825) ; 0. Jahn, Prolego mena to his edition of Persius; H. von Arnim in Pauly-Wissowa's Real encyclopiidie, i. pt. ii. (1894) ; W. Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur pp. 702, 755 ; M. Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur, i. 2 (i9oi) , p. 285 ; Teuffel-Schwabe, Hist. of Roman Lit erature (Eng. trans.) § 299, 2 ; P. Schundt, De Cornuti . . . Com pendia (Dissertationis plutologicae Halenses, vol. xxi.) (1912).