希腊的文学和哲学进入罗马,并使得罗马人对希腊文化成就敬佩不已。在罗马帝国中,操着不同语言的人接触频繁,语言的学习和教授成了迫切问题。公元前二世纪开始,希腊文化在罗马广泛传播。创有《论拉丁语》的瓦罗在当时最为著名。他对语言学有自己的独到见解。继他之后,出现了多纳特斯和普利森两位著名的拉丁语法学家,他们对语法理论表达了自己的观点。 Greek literature and philosophy entered Rome, and made the Romans admire Greek cultural achievements. In the Roman Empire, people who speak different languages ​​have frequent contacts and language learning and teaching has become an urgent problem. Beginning from the second century BC, Greek culture spread widely in Rome. Created a “on Latin” Varro at the time the most famous. He has his own unique view of linguistics. Following him, two famous Latin jurists, Donatus and Preston, emerged and expressed their views on grammatical theory.