Lucius Caecilicus Minutianus Appuleius was a writer of ancient Rome whose surviving works are about grammar. He was commonly acknowledged until the 19th century to be the author of a work de Orthographia, of which considerable fragments were first published by Italian Cardinal and philologist Angelo Mai.^[1]

They were republished by Friedrich Gotthilf Osann, with two other grammatical works, de Nota Aspirationis and de Diphthongis, which also bear the name of Appuleius.^[2] Danish philologist Johan Nicolai Madvig showed that the treatise de Orthographia was actually a literary forgery, the work of an impostor in the fifteenth century.^[3] The two other grammatical treatises above mentioned were probably written in the tenth century.

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Appuleius, Caecilicus Minutianus Appuleius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 251.