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Ovid, Fasti, 1.7
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1. Plato, Timaeus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 22b. and by recounting the number of years occupied by the events mentioned he tried to calculate the periods of time. Whereupon one of the priests, a prodigiously old man, said, O Solon, Solon, you Greeks are always children: there is not such a thing as an old Greek. And on hearing this he asked, What mean you by this saying? And the priest replied, You are young in soul, every one of you. For therein you possess not a single belief that is ancient and derived from old tradition, nor yet one science that is hoary with age.
2. Cicero, On Laws, 2.27 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
3. Cicero, In Verrem, 2.1.47, 2.1.50 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
4. Varro, On The Latin Language, 6.2 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
5. Germanicus Caesar, Aratea, 3, 16 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
6. Horace, Letters, 2.1.25, 2.1.27 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
7. Livy, History, 43.13.2 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
8. Ovid, Epistulae Ex Ponto, 4.8.63-4.8.64 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
9. Ovid, Fasti, 1.1-1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.9-1.10, 1.13-1.14, 1.17-1.20, 1.285-1.286, 1.637-1.648, 4.95-4.160, 4.183, 4.186, 4.190, 4.194 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) 1.1. I’ll speak of divisions of time throughout the Roman year 1.2. Their origins, and the stars that set beneath the earth and rise. 1.4. And direct the voyage of my uncertain vessel: 1.6. Receiving with favour the homage I pay you. 1.9. And here you’ll find the festivals of your House 1.10. And see your father’s and your grandfather’s name: 1.14. And those days that he added to the sacred rites. 1.17. Be kind to me, and you’ll empower my verse: 1.18. My wit will stand or fall by your glance. 1.19. My page trembles, judged by a learned prince 1.20. As if it were being read by Clarian Apollo. 1.285. There was peace, and already a cause of triumph, Germanicus 1.286. The Rhine had yielded her waters up in submission to you. 1.637. Near where lofty Moneta lifts her noble stairway: 1.638. Concord, you will gaze on the Latin crowd’s prosperity 1.639. Now sacred hands have established you. 1.640. Camillus, conqueror of the Etruscan people 1.641. Vowed your ancient temple and kept his vow. 1.642. His reason was that the commoners had armed themselves 1.643. Seceding from the nobles, and Rome feared their power. 1.644. This latest reason was a better one: revered Leader, Germany 1.645. offered up her dishevelled tresses, at your command: 1.646. From that, you dedicated the spoils of a defeated race 1.647. And built a shrine to the goddess that you yourself worship. 1.648. A goddess your mother honoured by her life, and by an altar 4.95. She created the gods (too numerous to mention): 4.96. She gave the crops and trees their first roots: 4.97. She brought the crude minds of men together 4.98. And taught them each to associate with a partner. 4.99. What but sweet pleasure creates all the race of birds? 4.100. Cattle wouldn’t mate, if gentle love were absent. 4.101. The wild ram butts the males with his horn 4.102. But won’t hurt the brow of his beloved ewe. 4.103. The bull, that the woods and pastures fear 4.104. Puts off his fierceness and follows the heifer. 4.105. The same force preserves whatever lives in the deep 4.106. And fills the waters with innumerable fish. 4.107. That force first stripped man of his wild apparel: 4.108. From it he learned refinement and elegance. 4.109. It’s said a banished lover first serenaded 4.110. His mistress by night, at her closed door 4.111. And eloquence then was the winning of a reluctant maid 4.112. And everyone pleaded his or her own cause. 4.113. A thousand arts are furthered by the goddess: and the wish 4.114. To delight has revealed many things that were hidden. 4.115. Who dares to steal her honour of naming the second month? 4.116. Let such madness be far from my thoughts. 4.117. Besides, though she’s powerful everywhere, her temple 4.118. Crowded, doesn’t she hold most sway in our City? 4.119. Venus, Roman, carried weapons to defend your Troy 4.120. And groaned at the spear wound in her gentle hand: 4.121. And she defeated two goddesses, by a Trojan judgement 4.122. (Ah! If only they hadn’t remembered her victory!) 4.123. And she was called the bride of Assaracus’s son 4.124. So that mighty Caesar would have Julian ancestors. 4.125. No season is more fitting for Venus than Spring: 4.126. In spring the earth gleams: in spring the ground’s soft 4.127. Now the grass pokes its tips through the broken soil 4.128. Now the vine bursts in buds through the swollen bark. 4.129. And lovely Venus deserves the lovely season 4.130. And is joined again to her darling Mars: 4.131. In Spring she tells the curving ships to sail, over 4.132. Her native seas, and fear the winter’s threat no longer. 4.133. Perform the rites of the goddess, Roman brides and mothers 4.134. And you who must not wear the headbands and long robes. 4.135. Remove the golden necklaces from her marble neck 4.136. Remove her riches: the goddess must be cleansed, complete. 4.137. Return the gold necklaces to her neck, once it’s dry: 4.138. Now she’s given fresh flowers, and new-sprung roses. 4.139. She commands you too to bathe, under the green myrtle 4.140. And there’s a particular reason for her command (learn, now!). 4.141. Naked, on the shore, she was drying her dripping hair: 4.142. The Satyrs, that wanton crowd, spied the goddess. 4.143. She sensed it, and hid her body with a screen of myrtle: 4.144. Doing so, she was safe: she commands that you do so too. 4.145. Learn now why you offer incense to Fortuna Virilis 4.146. In that place that steams with heated water. 4.147. All women remove their clothes on entering 4.148. And every blemish on their bodies is seen: 4.149. Virile Fortune undertakes to hide those from the men 4.150. And she does this at the behest of a little incense. 4.151. Don’t begrudge her poppies, crushed in creamy milk 4.152. And in flowing honey, squeezed from the comb: 4.153. When Venus was first led to her eager spouse 4.154. She drank so: and from that moment was a bride. 4.155. Please her with words of supplication: beauty 4.156. Virtue, and good repute are in her keeping. 4.157. In our forefather’s time Rome lapsed from chastity: 4.158. And the ancients consulted the old woman of Cumae. 4.159. She ordered a temple built to Venus: when it was done 4.160. Venus took the name of Heart-Changer (Verticordia). 4.183. Eunuchs will march, and sound the hollow drums 4.186. With howling, through the midst of the City streets. 4.190. By shrill clash of bronze, and curved flute’s dreadful drone. 4.194. Why the Great Goddess delights in continual din.’
10. Tacitus, Annals, 2.88 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 2.88.  I find from contemporary authors, who were members of the senate, that a letter was read in the curia from the Chattan chief Adgandestrius, promising the death of Arminius, if poison were sent to do the work; to which the reply went back that "it was not by treason nor in the dark but openly and in arms that the Roman people took vengeance on their foes": a high saying intended to place Tiberius on a level with the old commanders who prohibited, and disclosed, the offer to poison King Pyrrhus. Arminius himself, encouraged by the gradual retirement of the Romans and the expulsion of Maroboduus, began to aim at kingship, and found himself in conflict with the independent temper of his countrymen. He was attacked by arms, and, while defending himself with chequered results, fell by the treachery of his relatives. Undoubtedly the liberator of Germany; a man who, not in its infancy as captains and kings before him, but in the high noon of its sovereignty, threw down the challenge to the Roman nation, in battle with ambiguous results, in war without defeat; he completed thirty-seven years of life, twelve of power, and to this day is sung in tribal lays, though he is an unknown being to Greek historians, who admire only the history of Greece, and receives less than his due from us of Rome, who glorify the ancient days and show little concern for our own.
11. Manilius, Astronomica, 1.10
12. Vergil, Georgics, 2.476 2.476. of their hard tooth, whose gnawing scars the stem.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
abbreviations,in calendars	Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 19
aeneas	Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 19
aetiology,origins,causae	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 1, 34, 133
alexandrian poetry	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 34
antiquarian literature	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 34
antiquus (ancient)	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 261
apollo,temple of,on delos	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 261
architecture and art,roman appreciation	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 261
art and architecture,roman appreciation	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 261
astronomy,stars	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 98, 133
augustan religious innovations	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 1
augustus,deification	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 98
brutus,marcus	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 261
calendar	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 1, 133
calendars,italian	Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 19
callimachus	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 34, 98, 107, 133
carmentis	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 1
cn. pompeius magnus	Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 19
concordia augusta	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 1
consuls,lists of	Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 19
deification,ascent to heavens	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 98, 107, 133
delos	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 261
divine support	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 107
divinity (of a mortal)	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 98, 107
emotions	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 133
epiphany,of romulus-quirinus	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 133
eponymy	Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 19
euander	Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 19
euhemerus,euhemeristic	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 98, 133
eulogy	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 98
exile,of ovid	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 1
exile poetry of ovid	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 1, 98
fas	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 98
feast days	Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 19
festivals,carmentalia	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 1
festivals,imperial	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 107
festivals,ludi saeculares	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 133
festivals,of concordia on the forum	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 1
festivals	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 1, 34, 133
germanicus	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 1, 98, 107
hercules	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 98
honorific titles,augustus as pater patriae	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 107
humour	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 1
imperial family	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 107, 133
intertextuality	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 107
inventions,of gods	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 98
irony,ironic	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 1
irreverence	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 1
iustitia virgo	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 107
julius caesar	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 34
juno,temples of	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 261
liber	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 98
livia drusilla,julia augusta	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 98
m. verrius flaccus	Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 19
maezentius	Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 19
magistrates and calendar,lists of	Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 19
magistrates and calendar	Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 19
maiestas,maiestas	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 98
manilius	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 98, 107
muse,muses	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 107, 133
mythography	Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 19
numa	Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 19
numen	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 107
offerings,sacrificial rituals	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 107
offerings,votive offering,votum	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 107
ovid,libri fastorum	Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 19
ovid	Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 19
ovids poems,epistulae ex ponto	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 98, 107
ovids poems,metamorphoses	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 98
palimpsestic rome,attitude to authentic antiquity	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 261
palimpsestic rome	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 261
patrons	Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 19
pax augusta	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 107
plato	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 261
ptolemies,berenice ii	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 98
religio'	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 261
revisions of the fasti	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 1
rituals	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 1, 34, 107, 133
romulus,deified,quirinus	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 133
romulus	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 133; Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 19
salii,carmen saliare	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 133
samos,temple of juno	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 261
self-fashioning	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 133
slenderness,λεπτότης	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 107
tarquinius superbus	Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 19
temple of,apollo on delos	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 261
temple of juno on samos	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 261
temples,of concordia augusta	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 1
temples,of janus	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 1
tiberius	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 1, 98
varros antiquitates rerum divinarum et humanarum	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 34
vates,inspired poet	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 107, 133
venus	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 34
vergil	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 107
verres,depredations of	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 261
war,social	Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 19