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E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 66 (search)
accession to the throne and marriage, the king was setting out on an expedition against Syria. Upon his safe return the vow was paid, and the tress deposited in the temple of the deified Arsinoe on the promontory of Zephyrion. Next morning, however, it had disappeared; but the anger of the king was appeased by the court astronomer, Conon, who said that he had descried it among the stars, where it must have been placed by divine agency. ToOv. Met. 13.600ff.). Arsinoes: Arsinoe was the sister-wife of Ptolemy Philadelphus, and was worshiped under the attributes of Aphrodite in a temple erected to her honor on the promontory of Zephyrion, between Alexandria and Canopus, whence she was called Zephyritis. No satisfactcry emendation of elocridicos has yet been proposed. ales equus: according to Pausanias Arsinoe was represented