Tucca, Plotius
a friend of Horace and Virgil. The latter poet left Tucca one of his heirs. and bequeathed his unfinished writings to him and Varius, who afterwards published the Aeneid by order of Augustus.
Further Information
Hor. Sat. 1.5. 40, 1.10. 81; Donat. Vit. Virgil. §§ 52, 53, 56; Schol. ad Pers. Sat. 2.42; Weichert, Poetarum Latinorum Reliquiue, p. 217, foll.
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