[IZ] "Ludi Cerealia (Livy, book xxx. 39; Ovid, Fasti, iv. 391)—
Circus erit pompa celeber numeroque deorum,
Primaque ventosis palma petetur equis.
Hinc Cereris ludi." (W. A. Heard.)
[JA] "The salii, or priests of Mars, on his festival, marched through the streets, stamping in a kind of dance and striking the sacred shields (ancilia.)
A saltu nomina dicta.
Ovid, Fasti, iii. 387." (W. A. Heard.)
[JB] "This is an allusion to 'Megalesia,' a festival of Cybele the Great Mother. In this festival there was a solemn commemoration, with processions and games, of the first entry of the goddess into Rome. The Corybantes were her Phrygian priests. See, for the whole worship, Ovid, Fasti, iv. 181." (W. A. Heard.)
[JC] "Compare Virgil, Æneid vi. 785—
Qualis Berecyntia mater