Donatus
ÆLIUS (dō-nā'tus), Roman grammarian and commentator; born A. D. 333. He was the preceptor of St. Jerome, wrote notes on Vergil and Terence, and a grammar of the Latin language so universally used in the Middle Ages that "Donat" became common term for grammar or primer of instruction. From him must be distinguished a later grammarian, TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS DONATUS (about 400), from whom we have a worthless life of Vergil, prefixed to many editions of that poet, and fragments of a commentary on the "Æneid."
DONAUWÖRTH (dō-nou-vert), an ancient town of Bavaria; at the confluence of the Wörnitz and the Danube, 25 miles N. N. W. of Augsburg. It was formerly a free imperial city of considerable importance; but has now sunk into an insignificant place of about 6,000 inhabitants. In the Thirty Years' War it was twice stormed, by the Swedes and by the Bavarians. It is likewise associated with the name of Marlborough, who carried the intrenched camp of the French and Bavarians near here in 1704; and, on Oct. 6, 1805, the French, under Soult, obtained a victory here over the Austrians, under Mack.
DON CARLOS. See CARLOS.