Arellius Fuscus (or Aurelius Fuscus) was an ancient Roman orator. He spoke easily in both Latin and Greek, in an elegant and ornate style.
He was probably the teacher of Ovid[1] and Pliny the Elder. He is mentioned in the Naturalis Historia of the latter. Another pupil was Papirius Fabianus.[2] Engraved frontispiece of George Sandyss 1632 London edition of Publius Ovidius Naso (Sulmona, March 20, 43 BC – Tomis, now Constanţa AD 17), a Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women and mythological transformations. ... Pliny the Elder: an imaginative 19c portrait. ... Naturalis Historia Pliny the Elders Natural History is an encyclopedia written by Pliny the Elder. ...
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^ [1] makes Ovid a pupil of Fuscus and Porcius Latro; [2] for report by Seneca the Elder in his Suasor, which contains a passage of Fuscus on astrology.
While he mentions both with the piety characteristic of the old Italian, he tells us little more about them than that " their thrift curtailed his youthful expenses," 2 and that his father did what he could to dissuade him from poetry, and force him into the more profitable career of the law.
He and his brother had been brought early to Rome for their education, where they attended the lectures of two most eminent teachers of rhetoric, ArelliusFuscus and Porcius Latro, to which influence is due the strong rhetorical element in Ovid's style.
He is said to have attended these lectures eagerly, and to have shown in his exercises that his gift was poetical rather than oratorical, and that he had a distaste for the severer processes of thought.
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