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C. Valerius Catullus, Carmina (ed. Sir Richard Francis Burton) 2 0 Browse Search
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M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, Three orations on the Agrarian law, the four against Catiline, the orations for Rabirius, Murena, Sylla, Archias, Flaccus, Scaurus, etc. (ed. C. D. Yonge) 2 0 Browse Search
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E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 36 (search)
Garganus in Apulia, on the bay of Urias (Mela 2.4.66). Its connection with the worship of Venus is unknown, though Ellis ascribes it to the association of this district with Diomedes (Verg. A. 8.9), who founded cities (e.g. Venusia) and temples in honor of Aphrodite (Serv. on Verg. A. 11.246). apertos, storm-beaten; Mela says the bay was pleraque asper accessu. Ancona (from the Greek form *)agkw/n): this well-known city of Picenum contained a temple of Venus Marina; cf. Juv. 4.40 domum Veneris, quam Dorica sustinet Ancon. Cnidum: in this famous city at the extremity of the Cnidian Chersonese in Caria were several temples of Aphrodite, and the renowned statue of the goddess by Praxiteles. harundinosam: the reeds
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 114 (search)
On Mentula as a ‘land-poor’ property owner. On the identity of Mentula with Mamurra see Intr. 73. The next poem speaks of the same estate as this. Firmanus: Firmum, now Fermo, was a town in Picenum, about forty miles south of Ancona. saltu: the word denoted first uncultivated land (cf. Fest. p. 302 sallus est ubi silvae et pastiones sunt, quarum causa casae quoque ), and then a measure of 800 iugera as a single grant of such land by the land-commissions (Varr. R. R. 1.10.2), and then the grant in general, an ‘estate,’ even though comprising, as here, some arable land (cf. Fest. l.c. si qua particula in eo saltu pastorum aut custodum causa aratur, ea res non peremit nomen saltui). tot res egregias: spoken ironically, like non fulso in v. 1, for Catul. 115.1ff. shows that the