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Lucifer (Oregon, United States) (search for this): text comm, poem 62
arge, that the darkness makes possible acts of violence. nocte latent fures: perhaps quoted verbatim from the song of the maidens, but neutralized as far as it is a charge against Hesperus, by the following clause. idem … mutato nomine: the poet disregards the scientific fact that the same planet is not both morning and evening star at the same season of the year. The identity of Hesperus and Lucifer (cf. Cic. l.c. on v. 1) was known about the time of Pythagoras, whether established by him or by Parmenides, and is freqaently alluded to by the Romans; cf Varr. RR 3.5.17 stella Lucifer interdiu, noctu Hesperus ; Cir. 350 [ignem] quem pavidae alternis fugitant optantque puellae (Hesperium vitant, optant ardescere Eoum); Cinna Zmyrna (ap. Serv. on Verg. G. 1.288) te matutinus flentem cons
Olympus (Vermont, United States) (search for this): text comm, poem 62
is by analogy spoken of as its rising; cf. Hor. Carm. 2.9.10 nec tibi Vespero surgente decedunt amores nec rapidum fugienti solem. Here the star stands above the Thessalian (cf. v. 7 Oetaeos) Olympus; though the poets also speak of Vesper as leaving Olympus (the dwelling of the gods) or Oeta to usher in the night; cf. Verg. Ecl. 6.86 invito processit Vesper Olympo ; Cul. 203 pigerOlympus (the dwelling of the gods) or Oeta to usher in the night; cf. Verg. Ecl. 6.86 invito processit Vesper Olympo ; Cul. 203 piger aurata procedit Vesper ab Oeta ; Cir. 350 gelida venientem ignem ab Oeta . For the ablative with tollere without a preposition cf. Ov. Met. 15.192 clipeus terra cum tollitur ima . surgere … linquere mensas: cf. Verg. A. 8.109 relictis consurgunt mensis. pinguis: here = opimas, as in Verg. A. 3.224 dapibusque ep
Thessaly (Greece) (search for this): text comm, poem 62
innuptae: for virgines, as in Catul. 64.78. contra, on your side, i.e. from your position at a table opposite theirs. nimirum: i.e. it must be that the youths have already caught sight of the evening star, and that is the reason for their rising. Oetaeos: Mt. Oeta is the name of the range in the district of Oetaea, just at the head of the Maliae Gulf between Thessaly and Aetolia. Upon it the funeral pyre of Heracles was erected. It is sometimes connected with the Thessalian Olympus; cf. v. 1 n. Olympo. ostendit ignes: cf. Hor. Carm. 3.29.17 iam clarus occultum Andromedae pater ostendit ignem. Noctifer: cf. Calp. Buc. 5.120 iam sole fugato frigidus aestivas impellit Noctifer horas.
Hesperus (Colorado, United States) (search for this): text comm, poem 62
ways in precisely equal strophes, the former the praises of Hesperus and of marriage, the latter the fears and sorrows of surrenHymenaee, etc. The maidens had complained of Hesperus for robbing them of a companion, and in general for usheriand depredation. The youths denied in the lost verses that Hesperus is the harbinger of danger, and in vv. 33-36 support theirsible danger at night is averted by ordinary watchfulness; Hesperus himself acts as thief-taker by ushering in the unexpected maidens, but neutralized as far as it is a charge against Hesperus, by the following clause. idem … mutato ening star at the same season of the year. The identity of Hesperus and Lucifer (cf. Cic. l.c. on v. 1) was known about the ti Varr. RR 3.5.17 stella Lucifer interdiu, noctu Hesperus ; Cir. 350 [ignem] quem pavidae alternis fugitant
Aetolia (Greece) (search for this): text comm, poem 62
innuptae: for virgines, as in Catul. 64.78. contra, on your side, i.e. from your position at a table opposite theirs. nimirum: i.e. it must be that the youths have already caught sight of the evening star, and that is the reason for their rising. Oetaeos: Mt. Oeta is the name of the range in the district of Oetaea, just at the head of the Maliae Gulf between Thessaly and Aetolia. Upon it the funeral pyre of Heracles was erected. It is sometimes connected with the Thessalian Olympus; cf. v. 1 n. Olympo. ostendit ignes: cf. Hor. Carm. 3.29.17 iam clarus occultum Andromedae pater ostendit ignem. Noctifer: cf. Calp. Buc. 5.120 iam sole fugato frigidus aestivas impellit Noctifer horas. sic ce