Abstract

Dissatisfied with current views upon the exordium of Tibullus II. i., I proposed in Selections from Tibullus to make the occasion of the poem the Sementiuae Feriae instead of the Ambarualia. This proposal, criticised, amongst others, by Mr. Warde Fowler in an interesting article in the Classical Review, I have now abandoned. But the difficulties which led me to break away from previous exegesis still remain, and to them I address myself in the present article.