[66] Prima doubtless means first in order, though the other games are not distinguished numerically. ‘Ponam certamina:’ note on G. 2. 530. ‘Certamina classis’ for ‘certamina navium,’ the collective noun for the distributive, not merely for metrical purposes, but because the race was open to the whole fleet, and, as we might say, an encouragement to the naval interest. See v. 115.
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