June 7 | Fastorum Liber Sextus: Iunius
F N | VII Eid. | VI.235-240, today is a festival day for the Tiber and his fishermen.
Tertia post Nonas removere Lycaona Phoebe 235
fertur, et a tergo non habet Ursa metum.
tunc ego me memini ludos in gramine Campi
aspicere et dici, lubrice Thybri, tuos.
festa dies illis, qui lina madentia ducunt,
quique tegunt parvis aera recurva cibis. 240
235 On the third morn after the Nones it is said that Phoebe chases away (the grandson of) Lycaon, and the Bear has none behind her to fear.1 Then I remember that I saw games held on the sward of the Field of Mars, and that they were named thine, O smooth Tiber. The day is a festival for those who draw their dripping lines and hide their bronze hooks under little baits.
Because Arctophylax, the Bearward, had set. Arcturus was identified with Arcas, grandson of Lycaon, whose daughter was Callisto. Lycaon is here put for him.