Helenius Acron (or Acro) was a Roman commentator and

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ian, probably of the 3rd century AD, but whose precise date is not known. Helenius Acron is known to have written on

Terence Publius Terentius Afer (; – ), better known in English as Terence (), was a playwright during the Roman Republic. He was the author of six Roman comedy, comedies based on Greek comedy, Greek originals by Menander or Apollodorus of Carystus. A ...

('' Adelphi'' and '' Eunuchus'' at least) and

Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), Suetonius, Life of Horace commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). Th ...

. These commentaries on Horace are now lost but are referred to by the grammarian

Charisius Flavius Sosipater Charisius ( 4th century AD) was a Latin grammarian. He was probably an African by birth, summoned to Constantinople to take the place of Euanthius, a learned commentator on Terence. ''Ars Grammatica'' The ''Ars Grammatica'' ...

. There is some evidence for a commentary on

Persius Aulus Persius Flaccus (; 4 December 3424 November 62 AD) was a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin. In his works, poems and satire, he shows a Stoic wisdom and a strong criticism for what he considered to be the stylistic abuses of his ...

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Scholia Scholia (: scholium or scholion, from , "comment", "interpretation") are grammatical, critical, or explanatory comments – original or copied from prior commentaries – which are inserted in the margin of the manuscript of ancient a ...

'' attributed to Acron appear in manuscripts of Horace; there are three

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s known, the earliest dating to the 5th century. The fragments which remain of the work on Horace, though much mutilated, are valuable, as containing the remarks of the older commentators, Quintus Terentius Scaurus and others. The attribution to Acron, however, is not found before the 15th century, and is doubtful. The scholiast may therefore be called Pseudo-Acron. Fragments of Acron's writing may also appear in Pomponius Porphyrion.

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*''Acronis et Porphyrionis commentarii in Q. Horatium Flaccum''. Edidit Ferdinandus Hauthal
vol. 1vol. 2
Berolini sumptibus Julii Springeri, 1864. * Heleni Acronis
commentarium in Horatium Flaccum
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