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Ovid, Fasti, 6.431


sub Priamo servata parum: sic ipsa volebatPriam failed to take like care: so Pallas wished it


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1. Ovid, Fasti, 3.699, 5.573, 6.349-6.394, 6.419-6.424, 6.432, 6.435-6.436 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

3.699. And those sacrilegious hands sought me with their blades. 5.573. Loyal troops standing here, conspirators over there 6.349. I’ll explain the meaning of an altar of Jove the Baker 6.350. That stands on the Thunderer’s citadel, more famou 6.351. For name than worth. The Capitol was surrounded 6.352. By fierce Gauls: the siege had already caused a famine. 6.353. Summoning the gods to his royal throne 6.354. Jupiter said to Mars: ‘Begin!’ and he quickly replied: 6.355. ‘My people’s plight is surely unknown 6.356. A grief that needs a voice of heartfelt complaint. 6.357. But if I’m to tell a sad and shameful tale in brief 6.358. Rome lies under the feet of an Alpine enemy. 6.359. Jupiter, is this the Rome that was promised power 6.360. Over the world! Rome, the mistress of the earth? 6.361. She’d crushed the neighbouring cities, and the Etruscans: 6.362. Hope was rampant: now she’s driven from her home. 6.363. We’ve seen old men, dressed in embroidered robe 6.364. of triumph, murdered in their bronze-clad halls: 6.365. We’ve seen Ilian Vesta’s sacred pledges hurried 6.366. From their place: some clearly think of the gods. 6.367. But if they look back at the citadel you hold 6.368. And see so many of your homes under siege 6.369. They’ll think worship of the gods is vain 6.370. And incense from a fearful hand thrown away. 6.371. If only they’d an open field of battle! Let them arm 6.372. And if they can’t be victorious, let them die. 6.373. Now without food, and dreading a cowardly death 6.374. They’re penned on their hill, pressed by a barbarous mob.’ 6.375. Then Venus, and Vesta, and glorious Quirinus with auger’s staff 6.376. And striped gown, pleaded on behalf of their Latium. 6.377. Jupiter replied: ‘There’s a common concern for those walls. 6.378. And the Gauls will be defeated and receive punishment. 6.379. But you, Vesta, mustn’t leave your place, and see to it 6.380. That the bread that’s lacking be considered plentiful. 6.381. Let whatever grain is left be ground in a hollow mill 6.382. Kneaded by hand, and then baked in a hot oven.’ 6.383. He gave his orders, and Saturn’s virgin daughter 6.384. Obeyed his command, as the hour reached midnight. 6.385. Now sleep had overcome the weary leaders: Jupiter 6.386. Rebuked them, and spoke his wishes from holy lips: 6.387. ‘Rise, and from the heights of the citadel, throw down 6.388. Among the enemy, the last thing you’d wish to yield!’ 6.389. They shook off sleep, and troubled by the strange command 6.390. Asked themselves what they must yield, unwillingly. 6.391. It seemed it must be bread: They threw down the gift 6.392. of Ceres, clattering on the enemy helms and shields. 6.393. The expectation that they could be starved out vanished. 6.394. The foe was repulsed, and a bright altar raised to Jove the Baker. 6.419. Ilus, scion of Dardanus, had founded a new city 6.420. (Ilus was still rich, holding the wealth of Asia) 6.421. A sky-born image of armed Minerva was said 6.422. To have fallen on the hillside near to Troy. 6.423. (I was anxious to see it: I saw the temple and the site 6.424. That’s all that’s left there: Rome has the Palladium.) 6.432. Judgement having gone against her beauty. 6.435. The agent’s unknown, but the thing’s in Rome: 6.436. Vesta guards it: who sees all things by her unfailing light.


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aetiology,origins,causae Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 54
augustus (attributes of) Bierl (2017), Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture, 311
caesar,julius Bierl (2017), Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture, 311
calendar Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 54
concordia,concord Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 54
discordia Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 54
dynastic strife Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 54
fire Bierl (2017), Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture, 311
founder,of a dynasty Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 54
ganymede Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 54
imperial family Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 54
irony,ironic Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 54
livia drusilla,julia augusta Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 54
ovid Bierl (2017), Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture, 311
palladium Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 54
presence Bierl (2017), Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture, 311
supplicatio' Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 54
vesta (augustan,pre-augustan) Bierl (2017), Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture, 311