Fuscus, Aristius
a friend of the poet Horace. (Sat. 1.9. 61, Ep. 1.10.) Acro (ad loc.) calls Fuscus a writer of tragedies; Porphyrion (ib.) of comedies; while other scholiasts describe him as a grammarian. Since the names Viscus and Tuscus are easily convertible into Fuscus, Heinsius (ad Ov. ex Pont. 4.16. 20) contends that Viscus (Hor. Sat. 1.9. 22) and Tuscus (Ov. l.c.), the author of a poem entitled Phyllis, should be read Fuscus. (See Jahn's Jahrbuch d. Phil. ii 4, p. 420, for the year 1829.) Horace addressed an ode (Carm. 1.22) and an epistle (Ep. 1.10) to by Fuscus Aristius, whom he also introduces elsewhere (Sat. 1.9. 61; 10. 83).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.