Persio, non Ovidio: su Ps. Acr. ad Hor. epod. 13, 16. Citazioni ovidiane (ed errori) nei commenti tardo-antichi a Orazio

This paper aims to demonstrate that in Ps. Acr. ad Hor. epod. 13, 16 the editors erroneously attribute to Ovid a quotation (Ceruleus Nereus) most likely derived from Persius. This case study is part of a broader analysis of the very few Ovidian quotations in Porphyrio and the Ps. Acron, that shows how the two Horatian commentators are not great connoisseurs of Ovid’s works: this survey confirms the decline in fortune encountered by the poet within the grammatical sector in Late Antiquity, in contrast to the growing interest in Persius.