[735] Comp. 8. 173, “sacra . . . celebrate faventes,” and see on 5. 71. Dido first bespeaks the favour of the gods, then that of her people, begging them to make the gathering auspicious. Comp. generally “celebratur omnium sermone laetitiaque convivium” Cic. 2 Verr. 1. 26. ‘Coetus’ of a festive gathering Catull. 62 (64). 33, 385, 407.
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