April 5th | Fastorum Liber Quartus: Aprilis
G • NON • N LUDI | Nonis | IV.373-376, the Temple of Public Fortune was dedicated on this day.
Postera cum caelo motis Pallantias astris
fulserit, et niveos Luna levarit equos,
qui dicet “quondam sacrata est colle Quirini 375
hac Fortuna die Publica,” verus erit.
373 When the next Dawn1 shall have shone in the sky, and the stars have vanished, and the Moon shall have unyoked her snow-white steeds, he who shall say, “On this day of old the temple of Public Fortune was dedicated on the hill of Quirinus” will tell the truth.
M, the editor of Ovid Daily, has also written a translation of Liber IV.
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Pallantias, Aurora. Ovid regards her as daughter of the giant Pallas.