‘Aureus axis erat, temo aureus, aurea summae
Curvatura rotae, radiorum argenteus ordo.
Per iuga chrysolithi positaeque ex ordine gemmae
Clara repercusso reddebant lumina Phoebo.’
‘alter ab auro’ seems to mean ‘different from gold.’
27. Cp. Metam. ii. 23.
33-60. This passage is largely from Ovid: see especially Fasti, i. 151 ff. and iii. 235-242, iv. 429 f., v. 213 f., Metam. ii. 30, Tristia, iii. 12. 5-8.
40. In Ovid (Fasti, iii. 240) it is ‘Fertilis occultas invenit herba vias.’ The metrical fault produced by reading ‘occultam ... viam’ seems to have been corrected by the author, and in G the alteration has been made by erasure, apparently in the first hand.
44. redditus: apparently a substantive and practically equivalent to ‘reditus.’
59. Ovid, Fasti, v. 213 f., where however we have ‘Saepeque digestos.’ It is difficult to say exactly what our author meant by ‘O quia.’