Pomponius Porphyrion (or Porphyrio) was a

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ian and commentator on

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 ...

Biography

He was possibly a native of

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, and flourished during the 3rd century A.D.

Works

His ''

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'' on

, which are still extant, mainly consist of

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al and grammatical explanations. We probably do not possess the original work, which must have suffered from alterations and interpolations at the hands of the copyists of the

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, but on the whole the ''scholia'' form a valuable aid to the student of Horace.

Editions

*Acronis et Porphyrionis ''commentarii in Q. Horatium Flaccum''. Edidit Ferdinandus Hauthal
vol. 1vol. 2
Berolini sumptibus Julii Springeri, 1864. *Pomponii Porhyrionis
commentarii in Q. Horatium Flaccum
', recensuit Gulielmus Meyer spirensis, Lipsiae in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1874. *Pomponi Porfyrionis
commentum in Horatium Flaccum
', A. Holder, ed., Arno Press, 1894. See also C. F. Urba, ''Meletemata porphyrionea'' (1885).

References

* This work in turn cites: ** E. Schweikert, ''De Porphyrionis . . . scholiis Horatianis'' (1865) ** F. Pauly, ''Quaestiones criticae de . . . Porphyrionis commentariis Horatianis'' (1858)

External links

* ''Pomponi Porphyrioni
commentarium in Horatium Flaccum
' at www.horatius.net. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pomponius Porphyrion Grammarians of Latin Post–Silver Age Latin writers Horace

Pomponius The gens Pomponia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. Its members appear throughout the history of the Roman Republic, and into imperial times. The first of the gens to achieve prominence was Marcus Pomponius, tribune of the plebs in 449 BC ...