See also:

• POMPONIUS, LUCIUS

POMPONIUS See also:

• POMPONIUS PORPHYRIO

PORPHYRIO  , Latin grammarian and commentator on See also:

• HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace, possibly a native of See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa, flourished during the 2nd See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

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

original See also:

• WORK

work, which must ,have suffered from alterations and interpolations at the hands of the copyists of the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle ages, but on the whole the scholia See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form a valuable aid to the student of Horace . Ed . W . See also:

• MEYER, CHRISTIAN ERICH HERMANN VON (18or-1869)
• MEYER, HEINRICH AUGUST WILHELM (1800-1873)
• MEYER, JULIUS LOTHAR (183o-1895)
• MEYER, KONRAD FERDINAND (1825-1898)
• MEYER, VICTOR (1848-1897)
• MEYER, [MARIE] PAUL HYACINTHE (184o- )

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) .