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Athens (Greece) (search for this): text comm, poem 64
. dicuntur. Androgeoneae caedis: Androgeos, son of Minos and Pasiphae, conquered all his competitors at wrestling in Athens, and was through jealousy assassinated while on his way to the games at Thebes. According to another story, King Aegeus himself caused his death band 121. divae: the use of the unmodified noun to indicate Athena seems to be made possible by the unmistakable reference to Athens in v. 211 Erechtheum portum. incundior vita: cf. Catul. 68.106 ita dulcius atque anima ; and on similtc. Theseus passed his early life with his mother Aethra in the home of her father Pittheos, king of Troezene, and when he finally came to Athens, found Aegeus already an old man. fine: feminine, as regularly in Lucretius, and not very infrequently in other writ
Chalcis (Greece) (search for this): text comm, poem 64
copiam: with a dependent infinitive, solvere; cf. Sall. Cat. 17.6 molliter vivere copia ; Verg. A. 9.483 te adfari data copia. Neptunia: i.e. built by Neptune. solvere vincla: cf. Hom. Il. 16.100 o)/fr' oi)=oi Troi/hs i(era\ krh/demna lu/wmen ; similariy according to Polybius 17.11.5 the fortresses of Chalcis, Corinth, and Demetrias were called pe/dai *(ellhnikai/. made^fient: cf. v. 360 n. tepefaciet. quae: referring to the adjective Polyxenia (= Polyxenae); cf. Liv. 2.53.1 Veiens bellum exortum, quibus Sabini arma coniunxerunt . ancipiti: two-edged; probably with reference to the bipennis, used both as a weapon of warfare and as a sacrif
Corinth (Greece) (search for this): text comm, poem 64
copiam: with a dependent infinitive, solvere; cf. Sall. Cat. 17.6 molliter vivere copia ; Verg. A. 9.483 te adfari data copia. Neptunia: i.e. built by Neptune. solvere vincla: cf. Hom. Il. 16.100 o)/fr' oi)=oi Troi/hs i(era\ krh/demna lu/wmen ; similariy according to Polybius 17.11.5 the fortresses of Chalcis, Corinth, and Demetrias were called pe/dai *(ellhnikai/. made^fient: cf. v. 360 n. tepefaciet. quae: referring to the adjective Polyxenia (= Polyxenae); cf. Liv. 2.53.1 Veiens bellum exortum, quibus Sabini arma coniunxerunt . ancipiti: two-edged; probably with reference to the bipennis, used both as a weapon of warfare and as a sacrificial axe
Delphi (Greece) (search for this): text comm, poem 64
f the correct reading, probably used absolutely; cf. the ordinary use of revisere with ad. annua: etc. doubtless a typical occasion only, rather than a known festival. vagus: often used of the aimless, frenzied rushing to and fro of the god's followers; cf. Catul. 63.13, Catul. 63.86. Parnasi: this famous mountain of Phocis, the haunt of the gods, rose just behind Delphi. effusis: etc. cf. the descripion of the Bacchic rout in vv. 254ff.; Ov. Fast. 6.514 Thyiades, effusis per sua colla comis . Delphi: i.e. the inhabitants of the city; cf. Just. 24.7.8 urbem suam Delphi aucti viribus sociorum permuniucre , and Grk. *delfoi/ often. The city was early connected with the worship of Bacchus as of Apollo; cf.
Demetrias (search for this): text comm, poem 64
opiam: with a dependent infinitive, solvere; cf. Sall. Cat. 17.6 molliter vivere copia ; Verg. A. 9.483 te adfari data copia. Neptunia: i.e. built by Neptune. solvere vincla: cf. Hom. Il. 16.100 o)/fr' oi)=oi Troi/hs i(era\ krh/demna lu/wmen ; similariy according to Polybius 17.11.5 the fortresses of Chalcis, Corinth, and Demetrias were called pe/dai *(ellhnikai/. made^fient: cf. v. 360 n. tepefaciet. quae: referring to the adjective Polyxenia (= Polyxenae); cf. Liv. 2.53.1 Veiens bellum exortum, quibus Sabini arma coniunxerunt . ancipiti: two-edged; probably with reference to the bipennis, used both as a weapon of warfare and as a sacrificial axe; cf. Lucil. 751 Lachm
Nysa (Turkey) (search for this): text comm, poem 64
eat journey to the far East; cf. Verg. A. 6.804 qui pampineis victor iuga flectit habenis Liber, agens celso Nysae de vertice tigris , and Apollonius 4.431 calls Dionysus the prince of Nysa, when speaking of his marriage with Anadne. Nysa is variously described by ancient authorities as a city (or mountain) in India (Plin.), Arabia (Diod.), or Thrace (Hom.; Strabo). Nysa is variously described by ancient authorities as a city (or mountain) in India (Plin.), Arabia (Diod.), or Thrace (Hom.; Strabo). tuo: for the objective genitive, a not very common use; cf. Catul. 87.4 amore tuo ; Sall. Iug. 14.8 vos in mea iniuria despecti estis. quae: the following actions are those characteristic of the female followers of Bacchus (cf. also v. 256 harum), while only his male followers have thus far been referred to. Bergk is therefore correct in believing that a verse h
Pompeii (Italy) (search for this): text comm, poem 64
terrarum ; Mark 5.17 to depart out of their coasts. aura parit: cf. v. 90; Catul. 62.41n. indistinctis: the great number of the flowers precluded their artistic assortment. plexos corollis: flowers were usually woven into long cords for decorative use at banquets, and were sold among the Romans in that form; cf. the frescoes from Pompeii representing Amoretti in the business of preparing such cords. permulsa: often used of the delightful effect of pleasing sounds, but not often of odors; cf., however, Stat. Silv. 1.3.11 permulsit crocis blandumque reliquit odorem. risit odore: cf. HHymn. 4.13 kw)=z' h(/dist' o)dmh/, pa=s t' ou)rano\s eu)ru\s u(/perqen ga
Thebes (Greece) (search for this): text comm, poem 64
simply ‘Cretan’; cf. v. 172 Gnosia litora. nam perhibent: the poet drops the thread of his story for a moment to relate the circumstances that led to the present condition of Ariadne; cf. v. 2 n. dicuntur. Androgeoneae caedis: Androgeos, son of Minos and Pasiphae, conquered all his competitors at wrestling in Athens, and was through jealousy assassinated while on his way to the games at Thebes. According to another story, King Aegeus himself caused his death by sending him against the fire-breathing Marathonian bull. Minos thereupon besieged the Athenians, who were compelled to yield to him by a pestilence sent by the gods, and to accept his hard conditions of peace. electos: cf. v. 4 lecti iuvenes. The number is commonly given as seven of each sex (as also, perhaps, in Verg. A. 6.20ff.).
Europe (search for this): text comm, poem 64
curis: etc. cf. the similar phrase concerning Venus in Catul. 68.18 quae dulcem curis miscet amaritiem. cf. Catul. 36.12ff. flavo hospite: cf. v. 63 n. quanto magis expalluit: with the construction cf. Cic. Acad.1.3.10 quanto magis philosophi delectabunt ; with the figure, Catul. 81.4. Dark-complexioned people, as the people of southern Europe usually are, turn yellow lather than white when pale. ingrata, frustra: with the pleonasm cf. v. 64 contecta, velatum; with ingrata in this passive sense, ‘without due return,’ cf. Catul. 73.3; Catul. 76.6; but in the active sense, ‘ungrateful,’ Catul. 76.9. tacito succendit vota labello: the beautiful figure of the incense of prayer is unique in Latin in this pure form, but is so simple tha
Asia (search for this): text comm, poem 64
longer bore the yoke; in this expression, as in the following verses, the absolute desertion of the farm is pictured by representing it as if it had lasted a long time. Cf. Verg. Ecl. 4.40f. non rastros patietur humus, non vinea falcem; robustus quoque iam tauris iuga solvet arator . humilis vinea: here, as, according to Varro RR 1.8, in Spain and some parts of Asia, the vines were not trained on trees, but either ran along the ground or were so cut as to be kept low. The latter plan is followed to-day in the great vineyards of California, and to some extent in Italy itself. curvis: perhaps referring to the crescent-shaped iron, the two points of which form the teeth of the rastrum pictured in Rich's Dict. Ant. s.v. rastris: the rastrum was a heav
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