saec.V
The evidence for this Latin grammarian is extremely sparse. The single manuscript that transmits his Ars - in a passage that Kaster suspects of being an interpolation - mentions a certain Cledonius Romanus senator Constantinopolitanus grammaticus: although the absence of punctuation complicates our identification of his origins, the most recent scholars maintain that he was active at Constantinople after the first quarter of the 5th c. (Gatti). A terminus post quem can be established by the fact that Cledonius seems to have relied on Servius’ commentary on Donatus; a terminus ante quem is established by the very codex that transmits the Ars, which Keil argues is of the 6th c., Sinner of the 7th c. [S. Mollea; tr. C. L. Caterine]