Sabinus (died 14 or 15 AD) was aLatin poet and friend ofOvid. He is known only from two passages of Ovid's works.

AtAmores 2.18.27—34, Ovid says that Sabinus has written responses to six of Ovid'sHeroïdes, the collection ofelegiac epistles each written in the person of a legendary woman to her absent male lover. These are enumerated asUlysses toPenelope, in response toHeroïdes 1;Hippolytus toPhaedra (H. 4);Aeneas toDido (H. 7);Demophoon toPhyllis (H. 2);Jason toHypsipyle (H. 6); and (presumably)Phaon toSappho (H. 15).^[1]

Three of these Ovidian responses by Sabinus — the letters from Ulysses and Demophoon, along with a letter fromParis toOenone (Heroïdes 5) — are printed inRenaissance editions of theHeroïdes. Modern scholars believe them to have actually been written in the 1460s–1470s^[2] by thehumanistAngelo Sabino, who was a poet and editor of classical texts. His edition advertised the inclusion of poems by "Aulus Sabinus," and though this has sometimes been taken as the ancient poet'spraenomen, it was probably part of Sabino's invention.^[3]

Sabinus is also among some thirty contemporary poets mentioned by Ovid in his verse letters from exile (collected as theTristia andEpistulae ex Ponto).^[4] Ovid's bitter last letterex Ponto, written in 15 AD, alludes to Sabinus's response from Ulysses and gives titles for two other works by him,Troezen andDierum Opus, the latter of which is said to have been left unfinished upon his recent and untimely death.^[5]

The 19th-century scholar Carl Gläser conjectured that theTroezen was anepic poem containing a history of the birth and adventures ofTheseus, whose birthplace wasTroezen, up to the time of his arrival at his father's court atAthens. TheDierum Opus ("Days' Work") he regarded as a continuation of Ovid's calendricalFasti, which was left unfinished when he died in exile.^[6] Since Sabinus died before Ovid, this may be problematic.

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