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Ovid, Fasti, 2.631-2.638


dis generis date tura boni (Concordia ferturVirtuous ones, burn incense to the gods of the family


illa praecipue mitis adesse die)(Gentle Concord is said to be there on this day above all)


et libate dapes, ut, grati pignus honorisAnd offer food, so the robed Lares may feed from the dish


nutriat incinctos missa patella Lares.Granted to them as a mark of esteem, that pleases them.


iamque ubi suadebit placidos nox humida somnosThen when moist night invites us to calm slumber


larga precaturi sumite vina manuFill the wine-cup full, for the prayer, and say:


et bene vos, bene te, patriae pater, optime Caesar!‘Health, health to you, worthy Caesar, Father of the Country!’


dicite suffuso per sacra verba mero. 23. F TER — NPAnd let there be pleasant speech at the pouring of wine.


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Varro, On The Latin Language, 6.13 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

2. Horace, Sermones, 2.6.65-2.6.66 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3. Ovid, Fasti, 2.557-2.568, 2.571-2.630, 2.632-2.638, 5.485-5.492 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

2.557. But while these rites are enacted, girls, don’t marry: 2.558. Let the marriage torches wait for purer days. 2.559. And virgin, who to your mother seem ripe for love 2.560. Don’t let the curved spear comb your tresses. 2.561. Hymen, hide your torches, and carry them far 2.562. From these dark fires! The gloomy tomb owns other torches. 2.563. And hide the gods, closing those revealing temple doors 2.564. Let the altars be free of incense, the hearths without fire. 2.565. Now ghostly spirits and the entombed dead wander 2.566. Now the shadow feeds on the nourishment that’s offered. 2.567. But it only lasts till there are no more days in the month 2.568. Than the feet (eleven) that my metres possess. 2.571. See, an old woman sitting amongst the girls performs the rite 2.572. of Tacita, the Silent (though she herself is not silent) 2.573. With three fingers, she sets three lumps of incense 2.574. Under the sill, where the little mouse makes its secret path: 2.575. Then she fastens enchanted threads together with dark lead 2.576. And turns seven black beans over and over in her mouth 2.577. And bakes the head of a sprat in the fire, mouth sewn up 2.578. With pitch, pierced right through with a bronze needle. 2.579. She drops wine on it too, and she or her friend 2.580. Drink the wine that’s left, though she gets most. 2.581. On leaving she says: ‘We have sealed up hostile mouth 2.582. And unfriendly tongues’: and the old woman exits drunk. 2.583. You’ll ask at once, who is the goddess Muta?: 2.584. Hear of what I’ve learned from the old men. 2.585. Jupiter, overcome with intense love for Juturna 2.586. Suffered many things a god ought not to bear. 2.587. Now she would hide in the woods among the hazels 2.588. Now she would dive into her sister waters. 2.589. The god called the nymphs who lived in Latium 2.590. And spoke these words in the midst of their throng: 2.591. ‘Your sister is an enemy to herself, and shuns a union 2.592. With the supreme god that would benefit her. 2.593. Take counsel for both: for what would delight me greatly 2.594. Would be a great advantage to your sister. 2.595. When she flees, stop her by the riverbank 2.596. Lest she plunges her body into the waters.’ 2.597. He spoke: all the nymphs of the Tiber agreed 2.598. Those too who haunt your spaces, divine Ilia. 2.599. There was a naiad, named Lara: but her old name 2.600. Was the first syllable twice-repeated, given her 2.601. To mark her failing. Almo, the river-god often said: 2.602. ‘Daughter, hold your tongue,’ but she still did not. 2.603. As soon as she reached the pools of her sister Juturna 2.604. She said: ‘Flee these banks’, and spoke Jupiter’s words. 2.605. She even went to Juno, and showing pity for married women 2.606. Said: ‘Your husband loves the naiad Juturna.’ 2.607. Jupiter was angered, and tearing that tongue from her mouth 2.608. That she had used so immoderately, called Mercury to him: 2.609. ‘Lead her to the shadows: that place is fitting for the silent. 2.610. She shall be a nymph, but of the infernal marshes.’ 2.611. Jove’s order was obeyed. On the way they reached a grove: 2.612. Then it was they say that she pleased the god who led her. 2.613. He prepared to force her, with a glance instead of word 2.614. She pleaded, trying to speak from her mute lips. 2.615. Heavy with child, she bore twins who guard the crossroads 2.616. The Lares, who keep watch forever over the City. 2.617. The next day has its name, Caristia, from our dear (cari) kin 2.618. When a throng of relations gathers to the family gods. 2.619. It’s surely pleasant to turn our faces to the living 2.620. Once away from our relatives who have perished 2.621. And after so many lost, to see those of our blood 2.622. Who remain, and count the degrees of kinship. 2.623. Let the innocent come: let the impious brother be far 2.624. Far from here, and the mother harsh to her children 2.625. He whose father’s too long-lived, who weighs his mother’s years 2.626. The cruel mother-in-law who crushes the daughter-in-law she hates. 2.627. Be absent Tantalides, Atreus, Thyestes: and Medea, Jason’s wife: 2.628. Ino who gave parched seeds to the farmers: 2.629. And Procne, her sister, Philomela, and Tereus cruel to both 2.630. And whoever has gathered wealth by wickedness. 2.632. (Gentle Concord is said to be there on this day above all) 2.633. And offer food, so the robed Lares may feed from the dish 2.634. Granted to them as a mark of esteem, that pleases them. 2.635. Then when moist night invites us to calm slumber 2.636. Fill the wine-cup full, for the prayer, and say: 2.637. ‘Health, health to you, worthy Caesar, Father of the Country!’ 2.638. And let there be pleasant speech at the pouring of wine. 5.485. And soon the silent spirits were called Lemures too: 5.486. That’s the meaning of the word, that’s its force. 5.487. And the ancients closed the temples on these days 5.488. As you see them shut still at the season of the dead. 5.489. It’s a time when it’s not suitable for widows or virgin 5.490. To wed: she who marries then won’t live long. 5.491. And if you attend to proverbs, then, for that reason too 5.492. People say unlucky women wed in the month of May.
4. Propertius, Elegies, 2.2.13-2.2.14 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

5. Vergil, Aeneis, 3.301

3.301. of Strophades,—a name the Grecians gave


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
adultery,adulter Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 225
aeneas Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 218
aeneid Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52
aetiology,origins,causae Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52, 225
agrippa Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52
agrippa postumus Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 225
apollo Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 136
astronomy,stars Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52
atreus Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 225
augustan religious innovations Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 218, 225
augustus,caesar (iulius) Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 218
caristia Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
catullus Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 225
concordia,concord Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 225
concordia augusta Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52
cupid Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 136
dead,cult of the Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
deification,ascent to heavens Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52
di manes Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 218
dies,parentales Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
discordia Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 225
drusus (nero claudius drusus) Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 225
dynastic strife Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 225
eros Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 136
erotic context Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 136
eulogy Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52
feast days Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
february Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
feralia Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
festivals,caristia Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52, 218, 225
festivals,of concordia on the capitoline Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52
gaius caesar Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 225
ganymede Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52
genius augusti Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 225
hegemonios/hermes,as guide,as herald Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 136
herdsman,as psychopomp Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 136
herm' Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 136
hermes,erotic,see also erotic context Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 136
hesiod Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 225
honorific titles,augustus as pater patriae Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52, 218
hyperbole Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52
imperial family Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52
iohannes lydus Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
irony,ironic Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 218
january Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
julius caesar,deification,divinity Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52
juno,mater regina Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
juno,sospita Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
jupiter Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52
juturna Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52
lamentation,mourning Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 225
lara Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52
lares Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52, 218, 225; Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 136
lares augusti Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 225
lares compitales Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 225
lemuria Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
lex,acilia Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
libations in honour to the emperor Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52, 218
livia drusilla,julia augusta Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52
lucius caesar Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 225
lupercalia Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
magic Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 225
magistrates and calendar Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
marriage Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
may Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
mercury/hermes,and venus/aphrodite Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 136
mercury Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52
moon phases and juno Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
mundus patet Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
nonnus Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 136
nundinum Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
offerings,poems as offerings,sacred gifts (sacra),honos,honorem,cantibus Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 218
offerings,sacrificial offerings,victims,hostia Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 218
offerings,sacrificial rituals Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 225
offerings Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52
ovid Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 136; Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
prayer Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52, 218
priapus Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 218
procne Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52, 225
psyche Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 136
religious innovations Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 218, 225
rituals Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 218
romulus Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52; Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
sexuality Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52
supplicatio,supportive Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 225
supplicatio,suspicious Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 225
tacita,dea muta Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 225
temples,closed Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
tereus Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52, 225
thyestes Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 52, 225
trimalchio Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 218
underworld Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72
venus Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 136
year,ten-month year Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 72