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sacerdoti. ‘Because he was Apollo's priest they gave to him as then a chest to keepe in frankincense,’ Golding. His priestly character suggests the form of the present. For an instance where the same word is similarly in point, see Hor. C. III. iii. 32, with Wickham's note.custodem, with more feeling of the metaphor than in our corresponding use of ‘keeper.’ So with reference to the use of bay-branches at Rome (i. 562, Fast.III. 137-42) n. XV. xxx. 39 § 127, “laurus gratissima domibus ianitrix Caesarum pontificumque sola et domos exornat et ante limina excubat”.
Charles Simmons. Metamorphoseon XIII. xiv. The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books XIII. and XIV. Edited, with introduction, analysis, and notes by Charles Simmons. New York. Macmillan. 1899.
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