[662] Pii = “casti.” A comment on the epithet as applied to poets is furnished by the well-known passage Hor. 2 Ep. 1. 126 foll. ‘Phoebo digna locuti’ is generally explained of their power of song, but it may also refer to their purity. Serv. thinks prophets are meant, and explains ‘Phoebo’ &c. of their truthfulness; but the presence of Musaeus shows that poets formed part of the fraternity, and Virg. would hardly have so little feeling for his order as to pass them over in silence.
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