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E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 4 (search)
were often spoken of, sometimes even as if they were a single person, under one name, —that of Castor being more frequently used, as in v.27; cf. Hor. Ep. 17.42 Castor fraterque magni Castoris ; Stat. Silv. 4.6.15 ab Elysiis prospexit sedibus alter Castor; and the famous witticism of Bibulus in Suet. Iul. 10 evenisse sibi quod Polluci; ut enim geminis fratribus aedes in foro constituta tantum Castoris vocaretur, ita suam Caesarisque munificentiam unius Caesaris dici: but Hor. Carm. 3.29.64 has geminus Pollux.—The Dioscuri were invoked as dispellers of storms by sailors, who took the electrical phenomenon called still ‘St. Elmo's [= Helena's?] fires’ for the stars affixed in ancient art to the foreheads of the brothers; cf. Catul. 68.65 and other poets passim.