person
Tuticanus
An old poet friend of Ovid, author of a Phaeacis (a verse retelling of the Odyssey's Phaeacian books); his metrically intractable name is the joke of 4.12.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §4.12 name you Tuticanus
Tuticanus, an old poet friend whose name (with its run of short syllables) will not fit the elegiac line; the metrical joke is the occasion of the whole poem.