Editing Helenius Acron

{{short description|Ancient Roman grammarian}}
'''Helenius Acron''' (or '''Acro''') was a Roman commentator and [[grammar]]ian, probably of the 3rd century AD, but whose precise date is not known.

Helenius Acron is known to have written on [[Terence]] (''[[Adelphoe|Adelphi]]'' and ''[[Eunuchus]]'' at least) and [[Horace]].  These commentaries on Horace are now lost but are referred to by the grammarian [[Charisius]].<ref name="DGRBM">{{Cite book  | last = Allen  | first = Alexander  | contribution = Acron, Helenius  | editor-last = Smith  | editor-first = William  | title = [[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]  | volume = 1  | pages = 15  | place = Boston, MA  | year = 1867  | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0024.html  | access-date = 2007-10-11  | archive-date = 2007-10-05  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071005202304/http://ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0024.html  | url-status = dead  }}</ref>  There is some evidence for a commentary on [[Persius]].<ref name="EB1911">{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Acro, Helenius|volume=1|page=155}}</ref>

''[[Scholia]]'' attributed to Acron appear in manuscripts of Horace; there are three [[recension]]s known, the earliest dating to the 5th century.  The fragments which remain of the work on Horace, though much mutilated, are valuable, as containing the remarks of the older commentators, [[Quintus Terentius Scaurus]] and others.  The attribution to Acron, however, is not found before the 15th century, and is doubtful.<ref name="EB1911"/> The scholiast may therefore be called '''Pseudo-Acron'''.

Fragments of Acron's writing may also appear in [[Pomponius Porphyrion]].

==References==
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==External links==
*''Acronis et Porphyrionis commentarii in Q. Horatium Flaccum''. Edidit Ferdinandus Hauthal, [https://archive.org/details/acronisetporphyr01pseuuoft vol. 1], [https://archive.org/details/acronisetporphyr02pseuuoft vol. 2], Berolini sumptibus Julii Springeri, 1864.
* Heleni Acronis ''[http://www.horatius.net/index.xps?11 commentarium in Horatium Flaccum]'' at www.horatius.net.

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