Ovidio in Pentadio. Musicalità del De adventu veris

This paper is the first part of a greater work about the Ovidius’ presence in the surviving poems by the late antique poet Pentadius, that is forthcoming. As the poet is almost unknown, here we give, first of all, a complete discussion of the evidences about his profile, poetry and chronology; then we investigate the Ovidius’ influence on his metric patterns, for now with particular attention to the poem De adventu veris. We also use the Ovidius’ literary echo for a new constitutio textus of some passages of the elegy on the spring by Pentadius.