The paper examines the parody of the Catullus’ Phaselus and of the pseudovirgilian Sabinus ille (Catal. 10), made by Iulius Caesar Scaliger with a spirit of invective against E. Dolet. According to the requirements of humanistic poetics, parody was perceived as a genre contiguous to the cento and was therefore realized with verses and halflines of poems by various poets or of various poems by the same author subject to the parody. The investigation about the hapax ‘sicula’ from Catullus’ poem 67, employed by Scaliger in his parody, shows the genesis of a humanistic correction to the poem AL 206 R2, known thanks to the so-called schedae Divionenses. Finally, other quotes from various poets employed by Scaliger in his parody are indicated.