person
Vinius Asina
Vinius
The messenger entrusted to carry Horace's poems to Augustus (Epistles 1.13); his surname Asina ('she-ass') prompts the joke.
Reading notes
- The Epistles §1.13 Vinius
The messenger entrusted to carry Horace's poems to Augustus (Epistles 1.13); his surname Asina ('she-ass') prompts the joke.