person
Hermogenes Tigellius
Hermogenes
also: Hermogenes
A fashionable singer Horace repeatedly derides; here the example that a man is a 'singer' even when silent, parodying Stoic logic.
Reading notes
- The Satires §1.3 just as Hermogenes
Hermogenes Tigellius, a fashionable singer Horace often mocks; offered as the absurd proof that one is a 'singer' even while silent.