Tuticanus
a friend of Ovid, who addressed to him one of his extant epistles from Pontus (4.12). Tuticanus had made a free translation, into Latin verse of the Odyssey, or at least of a portion of it, to which Ovid refers in the lines: Dignam Maeoniis Phaeacida condere chartis Cum te Pierides perdocuere tuae.
Ovid likewise alludes to this poem in another passage ("Et qui Maeoniam Phaeacida vertit," ex Pont. 4.16. 27), but without naming the author. (Wernsdorf, Poet. Lat. Min. vol. iv. pp. 584, 585.)
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.