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nk, tolerably certain, that this god was the same with Dis and Orcus, and with the Hades or Pluto of the Greeks. See Mythology, p. 468.
733-762. On the evening of the same day, Ophiuchus rises.--_Patriis_, Galatea was one of the Nereïdes.
733. _Juvenis_, Aesculapius.--_Avitis_, of his grandfather Jupiter.
736. As being Ophiuchus, i.e. the Serpent-holder.
737. See the Hippolytus of Euripides. Mythology, p. 356.
746. Coronides. Aesculapius, the son of Coronis.
750. See Hygin. Ast. II. 14. Mythology, pp. 385, 411.
751, 752. Heinsius, I think justly, suspected these lines.
755. Sec III. 203. Virg. aen. vii. 774.
757. _Clymenus_, Pluto. Thus Lasus (ap. Athen. x.) [Greek Daemaetra melpo, Korante Klumenoio alochon].
762. _Quod vetat_, seil, to raise the dead.
763-768. On the IX. Kal. Jul. A.U.C. 537, the consul, C. Flaminius, in opposition to the auspices, gave battle to Hannibal at the Trasimene lake.--Vincere. To fight and to conquer were with Germanicus the same, according to the poet.
769. On the VIII. Kal. Jul. A.U.C. 551, Syphax was overcome by the Roman and Masinissa. Liv. xxx. 3-13.
770. Hasdrubal. It is uncertain what Hasdrubal is meant. Perhaps he who was overcome and slain at the Metaurus, A.U.C. 547. Liv. xxvii. 49.
771. Tacitis annis. Compare I. 65.
773. _Honores_, the festival.
776-784. The same day was the anniversary of the dedication of the temple of Fors Fortuna. _Dies Fortis Fortunae appellatus ab Servio Tullio rege, quod is fanum Fortis Fortunae secundum Tiberim extra urbem Romam dedicavit Junio mense_. Varro, L. L. V. There was another temple of this goddess in the same place, built A.U.C. 459. _Carvilius consul de reliquo aere aedem Fortis Fortunae de manubiis faciendam locavit prope aedem ejus dece ab rege Serv. Tullio dedicatam_. Liv. x. 46 Fors Fortuna is evidently the same with the Fortuna Virilis of IV. 145, and this last name appears