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PORPHYRIO, POMPONIUS

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PORPHYRIO, See also:POMPONIUS , Latin grammarian and commentator on See also:Horace, possibly a native of See also:Africa, flourished during the 2nd See also:century A.D. (according to others, much later). His scholia on Horace, which are still extant, mainly consist of rhetorical and grammatical explanations. It is not probable that we possess the See also:original See also:work, which must ,have suffered from alterations and interpolations at the hands of the copyists of the See also:middle ages, but on the whole the scholia See also:form a valuable aid to the student of Horace. Ed. W. See also:Meyer (1874) ; A. Holder (1894) ; see also C. F. Urba, Meletemata porphyrionea (1885) ; E. Schweikert, De Porphyrionis. . . scholiis Horatianis (1865) ; F.

Pauly, Quaestiones criticae de . . Porphyrionis commentariis Horatianis (1858).

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