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void of difficulty. Is stella serena the sun, which, when in the horizon, is on the verge of the two hemispheres? Is it Orion, of which Hyginus (Astr. III. 33.) says, _Orionem a zona et reliquo corpore aequinoctialis circulus dividit_? Or, finally, is stella for _stellae_, as IV. 390? But what then is meant by _geminos polos_? After this line most MSS. insert III. vv. 401, 402.
719. _Prol. Hyr_. See V. 493, et seq.
720. The following night (XV. Kal.) the Dolphin rises.--Continua. See V. 734.
721. A.U.C. 323, the dictator, A. Postumius Tubertus, triumphed after his defeat of the Volscians and Aequians, on the Algidus. For the importance of this victory, see Niebuhr, (II. 449--452.) who, referring to this place of Ovid, says, that it was gained A. D. XIII. Kal. Quinctil. or 18th June, the day of Collin and Waterloo.
723. _Suburb. triump_. As the Algidus was between Tusculum and the Alban Mount. See on III. 667.
725. On the XIII. Kal. Jul. the sun enters Cancer. Columella (R. R. xi. 2.49.) gives the same day. A temple was dedicated on this day to Minerva on the Aventine.
729. On the XII. Kal. Jul. in the time of Pyrrhus, a temple was dedicated to a god named Summanus. Pyrrhus entered Italy A.U.C. 473.--Nurus. Aurora, who was married to his son, Tithonus.
731. Summano. The poet, we may observe, is not certain who this god is. The following passages may help to remove the doubt: _Pluto qui etiam Summanus dicitur, quasi Summus Manium_. Mart. Capella, II. p. 40. _Pluto Summanus_, appears in Inscriptions. _Romani fulmina diurna attribuunt Jovi, nocturna Summano_. Plin. H. N. II. 52. _Quum Summanus in fastigio Jovis Opt. Max.--e coelo ictus esset_. Cic. Div. I. 10. P. Victor (Reg. XI.) places in the Circus Maximus the _Aedes Ditis patris_, and a fragment of an old Calendar has on this day _Summan. ad. Circ. Max_. Varro, (L. L. IV.) joins Summanus with Vulcan, and says, that Tatius built a temple to him. It is thus, I thi