Citations:festum

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Latin citations of festum

  • AD 8, Publius Ovidius Naso (author), Sir James George Frazer (editor), Fasti (1933), book II, lines 245–250:
    Idibus illa latent, oriuntur nocte sequenti, // quae tibi cur tria sint tam sociata, canam, // forte Iovi Phoebus festum sollemne parabat // (non faciet longas fabula nostra moras): // ‘i, mea’ dixit ‘avis, ne quid pia sacra moretur, // et tenuem vivis fontibus adfer aquam.’
  • ibidem, book IV, lines 877–8:
    cur igitur Veneris festum Vinalia dicant, // quaeritis, et quare sit Iovis ista dies?