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POMPONIUS PORPHYRIO

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 103 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POMPONIUS
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PORPHYRIO  , Latin grammarian and commentator on
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Horace, possibly a native of
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Africa, flourished during the 2nd
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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
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original
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work, which must ,have suffered from alterations and interpolations at the hands of the copyists of the
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middle ages, but on the whole the scholia
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form a valuable aid to the student of Horace . Ed . W .
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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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