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N SIX VOLMES

FASTI

WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY

SIR JMES GEORGE FRAZER

FLLOW OF INTY COLGB, CAMBIGB

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HARV ARD UNIVERSIY PRESS

LONON

• WILLlAM HEINEMANN LTD

MCMXX

Ameican ISBN 0-674-9279-2

British ISBN 0434 93 4

First printed 1931

Reprinted 1951, 1959, 167, 1976

Second edition 1989

CONTENTS

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

FROM THE INTRODUCTION (1931)

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ADDENDUM (1987)

BOOK I.

BOOK 11.

BOOK Ill.

BOOK IV.

BOOK V.

BOOK VI.

ApPENDIX

INDEX

PAGE

VII

XXXI

120

188

260

318

385

Printed in Great Britain by

St Edmundsbury Press Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Sufolk

REVISER'S PREFACE (1987)

SIR James Frazer's ive-volume edition of the Fasti is

a classic in its own right, and the single volume which

he produced from it for the Loeb Classical Library

partakes of the special quality of the larger work. In

having the emerity, on the occasion ofa reprint, to

introduce revisions I have taken pains not o alter the

general characer of the original work while at the

same time unobtrusively updating the Latin text to

conform to the most recent scholarship in the

evaluation of manuscript readings and in orth

ography. The Appendix has ben left untouchd. In

common with many contemporaries Frazer referred

to the place of Ovid's exile as Tomi: I have not altered

this, though all scholars now accept that Tomis,

Ovid's own spelling, is correct.

Frazer's Loeb gave very few critical notes, and I

have therefore dropped from the Introduction his

detailed discussion of the mss: this has in any case

been superseded by the researches ofAlton, Wormell,

and Courtney (conveniently summarized by Tarr

ant). The chief mss are now reduced to ive (Frazer's

sigla, where diferent, in brackets):

A: Vat.Reg.1709, lae 10th cent., Caroline: the

oldest and best ms.

U: Vat.3262 (Ursinianus), 11th cent.,Beneventan:

Monecassino.

I (-): Bdmer 123 (Ilfedensis), 11th cent., only

fragments.

G (X): Brussels 5369 (Gemblcensis), 11th cent.

UIG, whose consensus is indicated by Z, form

a separate family.

REVISER'S PREFACE (1987)

M (m): BodI.Auct.F.4.25 (Mazarinianus), 15th

cent., contaminated.

(, indicates one or more other mss.)

The evidence for all readings adopted in the text will

be fo und in the new Teubner edition (4.831 domitae

que in the appendix: cf. David Kovacs, AJP 107

[1986] 422) except for the transposition of 3.557f, a

brilliancy of C. E. Murgia (APA meeting, 1986).

Since Riese's edition (1874) it has become conven

tional to insert into Ovid's text the appropriate

entries fr om the ancient Roman calendars (see page

xxvii, fo otnote a and Degrassi), though these entries

are of course no part of the poet's composition: they

perform , however, the useful function of reference

markers and occasionally aford some clue to Ovid's

handling of his sources (e.g. at 3.877 he passes over

the entry for Mar.24 QRCF: such omissions I have

italicized).

Aspresented in this book, the entries are asfollows:

(a) arabic numerals indicating the day of the

mnth (modern reckoning);

(b) the nundinal (market-day or weekday) letter:

these letters formed a sequence from A

(beginning with Jan.l) to H, after which the

sequence was begun again. Thus Jan.31 is G,

Feb.l H, Feb.2 A, and so on (see page 6,

fo otnote b);

Nones, or EID for Ides;

(d) next, if applicable, the abbreviation of the

fe stival: these I have expanded in parentheses.

(e) there follows a letter or letters denoting the

character of the day:

F (Fastus), N (Nefastus), NP (Nefastus

P[ublicus ?]: the symbol is much disput

ed), EN (ENdotercisus=intercisus): see

pp. 4f, fo otnote c;

C (Comitialis): see p. 6, footnote a;

QRCF (Quando Rex Comitiavit, Fas 'busi

ness may begin when the King has

dismissed the assembly '), limited to

Mar.24 and May 24;

QSTDF

(Quando STercus Delatum, Fas

business may begin when the trash [from

Vesta's temple] has been removed ') , only

on June 15;

(f) finally, in smaller letters than any ofthe above,

later notes of fe stivals or anniversaries (that

recorded on Mar.6, cf p. 150, fo otnote b, will

serve as an example). I have not ventured to

add to what the old Loeb presented, though it

will be clear that among the calendars Ovid

consulted he pretty certainly fo und ANNAE

PER (or some such note) against Mar. 15.

While the works of Ovid (even the poems he

composed in exile) have in recent decades evoked a

most enthusiastic revival of interest, it is to be

regretted that the Fasti, by comparison, have

somehow failed to secure their merited share of

attention. Some notion of the verve with which the

poet tackled his task and of the success he achieved

may be gained from the fo llowing tribute (and it is a

back-handed compliment, coming as it does from the

pen of one who was not by nature susceptible to his

waggish genius): 'Still, when all is said, a student of

the Roman religion should be grateful to Ovid; and

when after the month of June we lose him as a

viii

REVISER'S PREFACE (1987)

companion, we may well fe el that the subject notonly

loses with him what little literary interest it can boast

of, but becomes for the most part a mere investig

ation of fossil rites from which all life and meaning

have departed for ever' (Warde Fowler, The Roan

Festivals [1899] 14).

G. P. GOOLD

FROM THE INTRODUCTION (1931)

§ 1. THE LIFE OF OVID

ON the life of Ovid we have more authentic

information than on that of most ancient writers, for

not only has he interspersed many allusions to it in

his poems but in one of them he has given us a formal

autobiography,D a species of composition to which

the ancients were not addicted. Indeed, even the

art of biography was little cultivated in antiquity,

and were it not for the splendid portrait gallery

which Plutarch has bequethed to us in his Lives our

knowledge of the personal character and fortunes of

the great men of Greece and Rome would be for the

most part but slight and fragmentary, and for us

they might have stalked like masked igures, looming

vast and dim through the mist, across the stage of

history.

Ovid was born in 43 B.C., the year in which the two

consuls, Hirtius and Pansa, fell in battle during the

civil war which followed the assassination of Caesar.

His birthplace was Sulmo, the modern Solmona, a

town situated in a well-watered valley of the Appen

ines, in the land of the Paelignians, about ninety

miles o the east of Rome. He has himself described

the happy vale, rich in con and vines, dotted here

• Tsta, iv. 10.

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