April 16th | Fastorum Liber Quartus: Aprilis
B N LUDI | XVI Kal. | IV.673-676, Venus hurries the day along.
hanc quondam Cytherea diem properantius ire
iussit et admissos praecipitavit equos,
ut titulum imperii quam primum luce sequenti 675
Augusto iuveni prospera bella darent.
673 This day once on a time Cytherea commanded to go faster and hurried the galloping horses down hill, that on the next day the youthful Augustus might receive the sooner the title of emperor for his victories in war.1
M, the editor of Ovid Daily, has also written a translation of Liber IV.
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Venus, as the ancestress of the Julian house, is made to hasten the sun’s setting on April 15, that he might rise the sooner on the 16th, when the title of Imperator was given him for his relief of Mutina.