Editing Priscian (section)

==Legacy==
Books XVII & XVIII of the ''Institutes'', his work ''On Construction'', was part of the [[core curriculum]] of the [[University of Paris]] in the 13th century and [[Roger Bacon]]'s lectures for the class were the probable origin of his own ''[[Overview of Grammar]]'', one of the first expositions on the idea of a [[universal grammar]].

[[Dante]] places Priscian in Hell among the sodomites in Canto XV of his ''[[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]]''.<ref>[[Dante]], ''[[Inferno (Dante)|Inf.]]'', Canto XV, l. 109.</ref> Dante's contemporaries knew of no historical evidence that Priscian was a sodomite.<ref>{{cite journal |author-last=Boswell |author-first=John E. |author-link=John Boswell |title=Dante and the Sodomites |journal=Dante Studies |issue=112 |year=1994 |page=65 |jstor=40166490 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40166490 |access-date=May 28, 2023}}</ref> [[Giovanni Boccaccio]] suggested that Priscian was placed here to signify teachers of grammar in general, who were reputed to frequently sexually abuse their young students.<ref>{{cite journal |author-last=Boswell |author-first=John E. |author-link=John Boswell |title=Dante and the Sodomites |journal=Dante Studies |issue=112 |year=1994 |page=68 |jstor=40166490 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40166490 |access-date=May 28, 2023}}</ref>