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regina: as revered goddess (3.26.11) and for the time ruler of his soul. longum: this is in fact the longest of the Odes, but we need not take it so literally. Calliope: Tenn. Lucretius, 'Poetlike, as the great Sicilian called| Calliope to grace his golden verse'; Lucret. 6. 94; Emped. 383; Hes. Theog. 79; Alcman, fr. 45; Auson. Idyll 20.7, carmina Calliope libris heroica mandat. But cf. 1.12.2. n.; 1.1.33; 1.24.3; 3.30.16; and the simple Musa (1.17.14; 2.1.9; 2.12.13; 3.3.70).

3, 4. seu . . . seu: 1.4. 12. The expression is confused. There seem to be three choices: song to the accompaniment of pipe, song alone, song to the accompaniment of a stringed instrument, either the lyre (fidibus) or the cithara, of which Apollo was said to have been the inventor.


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