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Virgil, Priest of Apollo?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

W. Warde Fowler
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The Classical Review , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , May 1913 , pp. 85 - 87
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1913

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page 86 note 1 Serv. Aen. iii. 21: ‘ubique enim Iovi iuvencum legimus immolatum.’ But it is fair to say that iuvenci were also sacrificed to Apollo (Macrob. iii. 10. 4), and that Virgil may have been thinking of the ludi Apollinares.

page 87 note 1 Such he is at the beginning of the sixth book, where (in 11. 69–70) Aeneas promises him and Diana a temple and ludi in the manner of a Roman consul making a votum.

page 87 note 2 There are suspicious features about this story of Suetonius (Aug. 70). It is given as an example of the scandal spread about Augustus by Antonius; and then ‘auxit cenae rumorem summa tune in civitate penuria ac fames, adclamatumque est postridie, omne frumentum deos comedisse, et Caesarem esse plane Apollinem, sed Tortorem : quo cognomine is deus quadam in parte urbis colebatur.’ What faith are we to put in all this?