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Ovid Ibis 512 and Tristia III 6 8

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman
Affiliation:
Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Extract

Ib. 511 sq.

lapsuramque domum subeas, ut sanguis Aleuae,

Stella Leoprepidae cum fuit aequa uiro.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , January 1915 , pp. 31 - 38
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1915

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1 Ovid knows too much astrology for his editors, and this phrase is misinterpreted by Heinsius and Nemethy and not interpreted at all by any other commentator whom I have read. It means ‘Venus is now favourably situate in a sign of her own’, that is in one or other of the two signs Taurus and Libra, which are the houses (, domus, domicilia) of the planet Venus.