Pomponius Porphyrion

He was possibly a native of Africa, and flourished during the 3rd century A.D.

His scholia on Horace, which are still extant, mainly consist of rhetorical 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 Middle Ages, but on the whole the scholia form a valuable aid to the student of Horace.

• Acronis et Porphyrionis commentarii in Q. Horatium Flaccum. Edidit Ferdinandus Hauthal, [https://archive.org/details/acronisetporphyr01pseuuoft vol. 1], [https://archive.org/details/acronisetporphyr02pseuuoft vol. 2], Berolini sumptibus Julii Springeri, 1864.
• Pomponii Porhyrionis [https://archive.org/details/commentariiinqh00meyegoog commentarii in Q. Horatium Flaccum], recensuit Gulielmus Meyer spirensis, Lipsiae in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1874.
• Pomponi Porfyrionis [https://books.google.com/books?id=fL6dJ4hReR0C commentum in Horatium Flaccum], A. Holder, ed., Arno Press, 1894.

See also C. F. Urba, Meletemata porphyrionea (1885).

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• {{1911|wstitle=Porphyrio, Pomponius}} This work in turn cites:
• E. Schweikert, De Porphyrionis . . . scholiis Horatianis (1865)
• F. Pauly, Quaestiones criticae de . . . Porphyrionis commentariis Horatianis (1858)

• Pomponi Porphyrionis [http://www.horatius.net/index.xps?10 commentarium in Horatium Flaccum] at www.horatius.net.

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Category:Grammarians of Latin

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