Ovid: Fasti 0674992792, 9780674992795

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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY FOUNDED BY JAMES LOEB,

LL.D.

EDITED BY t T. E.

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L. A.

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PH.D., LL.D. l.h.d.

E. H.

C.H., LITT.D.

t

W. H.

D.

WARMINGTON,

OVID'S FASTI

ROUSE,

litt.d.

m.a., f.b.hist.soc.

OVID'S FASTI WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY SIR

JAMES GEORGE FRAZER

FKLLOW OF TRINITY COLLKQE, OAMBRIDQB

LONDON

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First printed 1931 ReprirUed 1951. 1959

Printed in Oreat Britain

CONTENTS PAQB

Introduction

vii

Book

I.

Book

II.

Book

III.

120

Book IV. Book V.

260

2 56

188

Book VI. Appendix

318

Index

443

385

INTRODUCTION § 1.

On

the

life

The Life of Ovid

we have more

of Ovid

ation than on that of

authentic informwriters, for not

most ancient

only has he interspersed many allusions to it in his in one of them he has given us a formal autobiography ,

t\n-th

a

notv\

tinuors ho altornatc-ly bh^w

:

oi'

t"v>o.iulii-^s

tV\s.vion

WOndcr J

when he

and with out and brt\ith. Ami now ho biM^^wl ot* his tlu" m mphs aiul I'halK-n^Oil riioc^biis tho

his

but. \aiunn^liOil b\ rhv>i>bus. boi.l\

bolu^liHt with

ptrocMvod that,

its ot"

\\c

was

ii.in«;oil

aiul his

Vet uju 1 tlio invcMitn^ss music J that is why tho \no

skin.

this

keeps n»v days

holy.**

XVII. Kal.

IvL.

15th

^^ The third day will come, on which thou, O Thyone * of Dodona, wilt stand visible on the brow of 873

:

:

OVID contra collegae iussa redisse

690

sui.

novo licet Idibus uti et canere ad veteres verba iocosa modos." haec ubi perdocuit, " superest mihi discere " dixi " cur sit Quinquatrus ilia vocata dies." 695 ** Martius " inquit " agit tali mea nomine festa, estque sub inventis haec quoque turba meis. prima, terebrato per rara foramina buxo res placuit, cultuque

ut daret,

longa sonos. faciem liquidis referentibus undis 700 vidi virgineas intumuisse genas. ars mihi non tanti est valeas, mea tibia dixi excipit abiectam caespite ripa suo. inventam satyrus primum miratur et usum nescit at inflatam sensit habere sonum

vox placuit

efFeci, tibia

:

*

'

;

;

modo

705 et

dimittit digitis,

iamque

modo

concipit auras,

nymphas arte superbus erat Phoebum. Phoebo superante pependit

inter

provocat et caesa recesserunt a cute membra sua. sum tamen inventrix auctorque ego carminis huius. 710 hoc est, cur nostros ars colat ista dies."

14.

E

E[N]

15.

F Q ST D F •

•

•

Tertia lux veniet, qua tu, Dodoni Thyone, stabis Agenorei fronte videnda bovis.

"

Appius Claudius. Ovid thought this implied

*

Marsyas.

"

five

days

;

see

iii.

809.

One of the Hyades, also called nymphs of Dodona. Their true morning rising was on May 6 ; apparent, June 9, th

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GREEK AUTHORS Achilles Tatius. S. Gaselee. {2nd Imp.) Ok the Nature of Animals. A. F. Scholfield. Aelian 3 Vols. Vols. I and II. Aeneas Tacticus, Asclepiodotus and Onasander. The {2nd Imp.) Illinois Greek Club. Aeschines. C. D. Adams. {3rd Imp.) Aeschylus. H. Weir Smyth. 2 Vols. (Vol. I 7th Imp., Vol. II 6th Imp. revised and enlarged.) Alciphron, Aelian and Philostratus Letters. A. R. Benner and F. H. Fobes. Apollodohus. Sir James G. Frazer. 2 Vols. {3rd Imp.) Apollonius Rhodius. R. C. Seaton. {5th Imp.) The Apostolic Fathers. Kirsopp Lake. 2 Vols. (Vol. I :

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Sth Imp., Vol. II 6th Imp.) Appian's Roman History. Horace White. 4th Imp., Vols. II-IV 3rd Imp.)

4 Vols.

(Vol.

I

Aratus. Cf. Callimachus. Aristophanes. Benjamin Bickley Rogers. 3 Vols. {5th Imp.) Verse trans. Aristotle Art of Rhetoric. J. H. Freese. {3rd Imp.) Athenian Constitution, Eudemian Ethics, Aristotle Virtues and Vices. H. Rackham. {3rd Imp.) Aristotle: Generation of Animals. A. L. Peck. {2nd Imp.) Aristotle: Metaphysics. H. Tredennick. 2 Vols. {4ithlmp.) Aristotle Meteorologica. H. D. P. Lee. Aristotle Minor Works. W. S. Hett. " On Colours," " On Things Heard," " Physiognomies," " On Plants," " On Marvellous Things Heard," " Mechanical Problems," " On Indivisible Lines," " Situations and Names of Winds," " On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias.' {2nd :

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Imp.)

Aristotle revised.)

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Nicomachean Ethics. H. Rackham.

{6th

Imp,

THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY Aristotle Oeconomica and Magna Moralia. G. C. Armstrong. (With Metaphysics, Vol. II.) (4^A Imp.) Aristotle On the Heavens. W. K. C. Guthrie. {3rd Imp.) Aristotle On the Soul, Parva Naturalia, On Breath. W. S. Hett. {2nd Imp. revised.) Aristotle Organon The Categories. On Interpretation. H. P. Cooke Prior Analytics. H. Tredennick. :

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{3rd Imp.)

Aristotle nick

— Posterior Analytics. H. TredenOrganon — Sophistical Refutations. ComingOrganon

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E. S. Forster.

Topics.

;

Aristotle

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to-be AND Passing-away. D. J. Furley.

E. S. Forster.

On the

Cosmos.

Aristotle Parts of Animals. A. L. Peck Motion and Progression of Animals. E. S. Forster. {3rd Imp.) Aristotle Physics. Rev. P. Wicksteed and F. M. Cornford. 2 Vols. (Vol. I 2nd Imp., Vol. II 3rd Imp.) Aristotle Poetics and Longinus. W. Hamilton Fyfe Demetrius ON Style. W. Rhys Roberts. {5th Imp. revised.) Aristotle Politics. H. Rackham. {4th Imp.) Aristotle Problems. W. S. Hett. 2 Vols. {2nd Imp. re:

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vised.)

Aristotle Rhetorica ad Alexakdrum. H. Rackham. (With Problems, Vol. II.) Arrian History op Alexander and Indica. Rev. E. Iliffe Robson. 2 Vols. {3rd Imp.) Athenaeus Deipnosophistae. C. B. Giilick, 7 Vols. (Vols. I-IV, VI and VII 2nd Imp., Vol. 3rd Imp.) St. Basil Letters. R. J. Deferrari. 4 Vols. {2nd Imp.) Callimachus Fragments. C. A. Trypanis. Callimachus Hymns and Epigrams, and Lycophron. A. W. Mair Aratus. G. R. Mair. {2nd Imp.) Clement of Alexandria. Rev. G. W. Butterworth. {3rd :

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V

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Imp.)

Colluthus. Cf. Oppian. Daphnis and Chloe. Cf. Longus. Demosthenes I Olynthiacs, Philippics and Minor Orations I-XVII and XX. J. H. Vince. {2nd Imp.) De Corona and De Falsa Legatione. Demosthenes II C. A. Vince and J. H. Vince. {3rd Imp. revised.) Demosthenes III Meidias, Androtion, Aristocrates, Tuiocrates, Abistogeiton. J. H. Vince. (2nd Imp,) :

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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY Demosthenes IV-VI

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Private Orations and In Neaeram.

A. T. Murray. (Vol. IV 3rd Imp., Vols. V and VI Qnd Imp.) Funeral Speech, Erotic Essay, Demosthenes VII Exordia and Letters. N. W. and N. J. DeWitt. Roman History. E. Gary. 9 Vols. (Vols. Dio Cassius I and II 3rd Imp., Vols. III-IX 2nd Imp.) 5 Vols. Vols. I and II. J. W. Cohoon. Chrysostom. Dio Vol. III. J. W. Cohoon and H. Lamar Crosby. Vols. IV and V. H. Lamar Crosby. (Vols. I-IV 2nd Imp.) :

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DiODORUS SicuLus.

12 Vols. Vols. I-VI. C. H. Oldfather. Vol. VII. C. L. Sherman. Vols. IX and X. Russel M. Geer. Vol. XI. F. R. Walton. (Vols. I-IV 2nd Imp.) Diogenes Laertius. R. D. Hicks. 2 Vols. (Vol. I 5th Imp., Vol. II Uh Imp.) DiONYSius OF Halicahnassus : Roman Antiquities. Spelman's translation revised by E. Cary. 7 Vols. (Vols. I-V 2nd Imp.) Epictetus. W. a. Oldfather. 2 Vols. (3rd Imp.) Euripides. A. S. Way. 4 Vols. (Vols. I and IV 1th Imp., Vol. II Uh Imp., Vol. Ill Qth Imp.) Verse trans.

Ecclesiastical History. Kirsopp Lake and E. L. Oulton. 2 Vols. (Vol. I 3rd Imp., Vol. II 6th Imp.) Galen On the Natural Faculties. A. J. Brock. {Uh Imp.) The Greek Anthology. W. R. Paton. 5 Vols. (Vols. IIV 5th Imp., Vol. V 3rd Imp.) The Greek Bucolic Poets (Theocritus, Bion, Moschus).

EusEBius

:

J.

:

J. M. Edmonds. {1th Imp. revised.) Greek Elegy and Iambus with the Anacreontea.

J. M. Edmonds. 2 Vols. (Vol. I 3rd Imp., Vol. II 2nd Imp.) Greek Mathematical Works. Ivor Thomas. 2 Vols.

(3rd Imp.)

Herodes. Cf. Theophrastus Characters. Herodotus. A. D. Godley. 4 Vols. (Vol, I Uh Imp., Vols. II and III 5th Imp., Vol. IV 3rd Imp.) Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns. H. G. Evelyn White. {1th Imp. revised and enlarged.) Hippocrates and the Fragments of Heracleitus. W. H. S. Jones and E. T. Withington. 4 Vols. (Vol. I Uh Imp., Vols. I I-IV 3rd Imp.) Homer Iliad. A. T. Murray. 2 Vols. {1th Imp.) Homer Odyssey. A. T. Murray. 2 Vols. {%th Imp.) :

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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY IsAEUs. E. S. Forster. (3rd Imp.) IsocRATES. George Norlin and LaRue Van Hook. 3 Vols. {2nd Imp.) St. John Damascene Bablaam and Ioasaph. Rev. G. R. Woodward and Harold Mattingly. {Srd Imp. revised.) JosEPHUs. H. St. J. Thackeray and Ralph Marcus. 9 Vols. Vols. I-VII. 4>th Imp., Vol. VI 3rd Imp., Vols. (Vol. I-IV, VII 2nd Imp.) Julian. Wilmer Cave Wright. 3 Vols. (Vols. I and II Srd Imp., Vol. HI 2nd Imp.) LoNGUS Daphnis and Chloe. Thornley's translation revised by J. M. Edmonds ; and Parthenius. S. Gaselee. (4th Imp., Vol. Ill 3rd Imp.) Tryphiodorus. Cf. Oppian. II

Xenophon 4>th

:

Cyropaedia.

Walter Miller.

2 Vols.

(Vol.

I

Imp., Vol. II 3rd Imp.)

Xenophon

:

Hellenica, Anabasis, Apology, and Sympo3 Vols. (Vols. I

sium. C. L. Brownson and O. J. Todd. and III 3rd Imp., Vol. II 4th Imp.)

Xenophon chant.

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Memorabilia and Oeconomicus.

E. C.

Mar-

{3rd Imp.)

Xenophon

:

Scripta Minora.

VOLUMES

IN

E. C. Marchant.

(3rd Imp.)

PREPARATION

GREEK AUTHORS Aristotle Plotinus.

:

History of Animals. a. H. Armstrong.

A. L. Peck.

LATIN AUTHORS Babrius and Phaedrus.

B. E. Perry.

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