733-762. On the evening of the same day, Ophiuchus rises.—Patriis, Galatea was one of the Nereïdes.
733. Juvenis, Aesculapius.—Avitis, of his grandfather Jupiter.
736. As being Ophiuchus, i.e. the Serpent-holder.
737. See the Hippolytus of Euripides. Mythology, p. 356.
746. Coronides. Aesculapius, the son of Coronis.
750. See Hygin. Ast. II. 14. Mythology, pp. 385, 411.
751, 752. Heinsius, I think justly, suspected these lines.
755. Sec III. 203. Virg. aen. vii. 774.
757. Clymenus, Pluto. Thus Lasus (ap. Athen. x.) [Greek Daemaetra melpo, Korante Klumenoio alochon].
762. Quod vetat, seil, to raise the dead.
763-768. On the IX. Kal. Jul. A.U.C. 537, the consul, C. Flaminius, in opposition to the auspices, gave battle to Hannibal at the Trasimene lake.—Vincere. To fight and to conquer were with Germanicus the same, according to the poet.
769. On the VIII. Kal. Jul. A.U.C. 551, Syphax was overcome by the Roman and Masinissa. Liv. xxx. 3-13.
770. Hasdrubal. It is uncertain what Hasdrubal is meant. Perhaps he who was overcome and slain at the Metaurus, A.U.C. 547. Liv. xxvii. 49.
771. Tacitis annis. Compare I. 65.
773. Honores, the festival.
776-784. The same day was the anniversary of the dedication of the temple of Fors Fortuna. Dies Fortis Fortunae appellatus ab Servio Tullio rege, quod is fanum Fortis Fortunae secundum Tiberim extra urbem Romam dedicavit Junio mense. Varro, L. L. V. There was another temple of this goddess in the same place, built A.U.C. 459. Carvilius consul de reliquo aere aedem Fortis Fortunae de manubiis faciendam locavit prope aedem ejus dece ab rege Serv. Tullio dedicatam. Liv. x. 46 Fors Fortuna is evidently the same with the Fortuna Virilis of IV. 145, and this last name appears to have originated in a mistake, for the true name of the goddess is Fors, not Fortis, Fortuna. Fors Fortuna, in quo incerti casus significantur magis. Cic. Leg. II. 11. 28. Aliud Fortuna est, aliud Fors Fortuna; nam Fors Fortuna est cujus diem festum colunt qui sine arte aliqua vivunt: hujus aedes trans Tiberim est. Donat. Ter. Phorm. v. 6. 1. Dionysius (iv. 27.) and Plutarch (De Fort. Rom.) render it in Greek, [Greek: Tuchae andreia], or [Greek: ischura] or [Greek: aristeutikae]. Ovid in this place agrees with them, but Cicero could hardly, I think, have made a mistake.
776. In Tib. rip. It is disputed on which side of the river the temple was. Donatus (see preceding note,) places it on the further side. "Templum sitiun in Transtiberina regione vel ex eo patet quod Naso subdit, vel ponte vel navicula illud adeundum." Neapolis. But, with this critic's leave, Ovid says no such thing, he merely says that they might go by land or by water, and, if the temple was the other side of the river, "transmisissent flumen non decurrissent," as Gierig justly observes.
781. Compare on v. 627.
784. Templa propinqua. Did Ovid ascribe the foundation of the two adjoining temples to Servius?
785. Suburb. aede, i. e. of Fors Fortuna.
787. As this was the VIII. Kal. the belt of Orion rose heliacally on the VI. Kal. [Greek: Maeni to auto ke] (xxv.) [Greek: Orion eoos archetai anatellein eisi de tropai therinai]. Aëtius.
790. Eadem die, i. e. the VI. Kal. Pliny (xviii. 28.) says on the VIII. Kal. Columella (R. R. xi. 2.) VIII. et VII. et VI. Kal. Jul. Solstitium, Favonius et calor. Perhaps, as Neapolis says, he was here only giving the various statements of the Parapegmata.
791. On the V. Kal. the temple of the Lares in the Forum, (P. Victor, Reg. VIII.) and that of Jupiter Stator, vowed by Romulus, (Liv. I. 12.) were dedicated.
792. Hic, etc. "In ejus vicinia taberna coronariae cujusdam doctae fuisse videtur." Krebs.
795. IV. Kal. Jul. was the dedication of the temple built to Romulus, under the name of Quirinus, on the Quirinal hill. See II. 511. It was repaired and dedicated anew by Augustus.
796. Trabeae. Compare I. 37, II. 503. Trab. Quir. tuae. is equivalent to tibi trabeate Quirine! It is a harsh mode of expression.
797. Tempus, etc. is equivalent to: This is the last day of June.
799. A.U.C. 575, M. Fulvius Nobilior built a temple to Hercules in the Flaminian Circus, in which he placed the statues of the Muses which he had brought from Ambracia. Plin. xxxv. 30. Eumenius, in Or. pro rest. Sch. c. 7, says, that Fulvius had learned in Greece that Hercules was Musagetes, or leader of the Muses. Heyne (Opusc. Acad. II. p. 305.) doubts greatly of this, and I have met with nothing to confirm it. This temple was repaired A.U.C. 767, by Marcius Philippus, the uncle by marriage (v. 809.) of Augustus. Suet. Aug. 29.
802. Marcia casta. She was married to Fabius Maximus, with whose family Ovid (Ep. ex Pont. III. l. 75.) appears to have been connected by marriage.
803. Sacrifico. Ancus Marcius, qui longe antiquissimum ratus sacra publica, ut ab Numa instituta erant, facere. Liv. 1. 32.
808. Laudamus, etc. Witness the following epithets of their goddesses, used by the Greek poets, [Greek: eukomos, leukolenos, kallisthuros, kalae].
812. Lyram. This is the reading of five MSS. the rest have lyra. Increp. lyr. is simply, struck the lyre. Threïciam digitis increpuisse lyram. Her. III. 3. 18. See Hor. Car. iv. 15. 1, for the meaning of the other form.
… In five of the best MSS. of this poem, the following four verses are found. They look like the commencement of a seventh book. See Introduction, §. 5.
Si novus a Jani sacris numerabitur annus,
Quintilis falso nomine dictus erit.
Si facis, ut fuerant, primus a Marte Kalendas,
Tempora constabunt ordine ducta suo.