Aristius Fuscus, quis erat?
Amicus Horati qui, ut scripsit Porphyrio, fabulas palliatas scripsit. Porphyrio (ad serm. 1.9): ‘praestantissimus grammaticus illo tempore’. Et carmen et sermo leviter scripti sunt. Patet Horatius saepe iocari cum Fusco.
- Odes 1.22:
- Satire 1.9
- Satire 1.10: Fuscus nominatur inter eos quibus arrident versus Horatiani.
Plotius et Varius, Maecenas Vergiliusque,
Valgius, et probet haec Octavius, optimus atque
Fuscus, et haec utinam Viscorum laudet uterque!
purple: The best dyes came from Sidon and Tyre (Phoenicia), but H. gives a catalogue of the knock offs (with thanks to Roland Mayer’s commentary):
- African: C. 2.16.35
- Laconian: C. 2.18.8
- Coan: C. 4.13.3
- Aquinate Epist. 1.10 (i.e. here)
- Tarentine: Epist. 2.1.207
- Gaetulian: Epist. 2.2.81
Both Aristotle (historia animalium (Aristot. Hist. an. 546b-547b) and Pliny (Plin. HN 9,124-138) write about the small snails that create the best purple dye. For more see Brill
