[1057]. Tibullus, ii. 5. 91 sq.:—
“Et fetus matrona dabit, natusque parenti
Oscula comprensis auribus cripict.”
[1058]. Ovid, Fasti, iv. 735-738. In his account of the festival Ovid mentions only shepherds and sheep; but since Pales was a god of cattle as well as of sheep (Arnobius, Adversus nationes, iii. 23), we may suppose that herds and herdsmen equally participated in it. Dionysius (l.c.) speaks of four-footed beasts in general.
[1059]. So Mr. W. Warde Fowler understands Ovid, Fasti, iv. 735-742.
[1060]. Ovid, Fasti, iv. 805 sq.
[1061]. Ovid, Fasti, iv. 739 sq.
[1062]. Ovid, Fasti, iv. 747 sq.:—
“Consule, dic, pecori pariter pecorisque magistris:
Effugiat stabulis noxa repulsa meis.”