[342]. H. Peter takes this to mean that they were let loose from a net and hunted into it again. See note ad loc. 5. 371.

[343]. See above, p. [77].

[344]. Sat. 5. 177:

Vigila et cicer ingere large

Rixanti populo, nostra ut Floralia possint

Aprici meminisse senes.—Cp. Hor. Sat. 2. 3. 182.

[345]. Friedländer, Sittengeschichte, ii. 286; and his note on Martial, 8. 78.

[346]. Kind. u. Korn. 351 foll.

[347]. Another point that may strike the reader of Ovid is the wearing of parti-coloured dress on these days (5. 355: cp. Martial, 5. 23)—

Cur tamen ut dantur vestes Cerialibus albae,