person
Pitholeon of Rhodes
Pitholeon
also: Pitholeonti
A versifier who mixed Greek and Latin; Horace cites him to deflate the supposed cleverness of macaronic style.
Reading notes
- The Satires §1.10 Pitholeon of Rhodes
A versifier who blended Greek and Latin; Horace cites him to puncture the conceit that macaronic style is clever or hard.