Tuticanus

• the name of a man, Ov. P. 4, 12, 10 sq. (where it is sportively scanned Tūtĭcănumque and Tūtĭcănui, to show that it cannot stand in elegiac verse).

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.)

A Roman poet, and friend of Ovid (Ovid, Pont. iv. 12).