Jupiter

Reading notes

• The Secular Hymn §29-32 Jove

  Jupiter, chief of the gods; 'the breezes of Jove' are the kindly weather that nourishes the crops.

• The Odes §1.2 Father

  Jupiter, who hurls the snow, hail, and lightning of the portents.

• The Odes §1.3 Jupiter

  The sky-god whose 'angry thunderbolts' mortal folly will not let him lay aside.

• The Odes §1.10 Jupiter

  The supreme god, whose herald Mercury is.

• The Odes §1.11 Jupiter

  Who allots how many winters one will see.

• The Odes §1.12 the Father

  Jupiter, governor of men and gods, of sea and land and the seasons, first of all to be praised.

• The Odes §1.16 Jupiter

  Even the sky-god 'rushing down in fearful uproar' does not check wrath.

• The Odes §1.21 Jupiter

  The supreme god who loved Latona, mother of the twin deities.

• The Odes §1.32 highest Jupiter

  At whose feasts the lyre is a welcome guest.

• The Odes §1.34 the Father of Day

  Jupiter, whose thunder from a clear sky converts the poet from his 'mad wisdom.'

• The Odes §2.6 Jupiter

  Who 'grants a long spring and mild winters' to the blessed southern country.

• The Odes §2.7 Jupiter

  To whom the rescued Pompeius owes a thank-offering feast.

• The Odes §2.10 Jupiter

  Who 'brings the ugly winters back' and takes them away—the turning of fortune.

• The Odes §2.17 Jupiter

  Whose protecting planet 'rescued' Maecenas from malign Saturn.

• The Odes §3.1 Jupiter

  Lord over the very kings, 'moving all things with a lift of his brow.'

• The Odes §3.2 Diespiter

  An archaic title of Jupiter ('Father of Day'), who may strike guilty and guiltless together.

• The Odes §3.3 Jupiter

  His 'thundering' hand, like the falling sky, leaves the just man unafraid.

• The Odes §3.4 Jupiter

  The Giants' assault terrified even him before his bolt prevailed.

• The Odes §3.5 Jupiter

  His heavenly reign is the model: Augustus too shall be held a 'present god.'

• The Odes §3.16 Jupiter

  Who 'laughed at Acrisius' and reached Danae by turning himself to gold.

• The Odes §3.25 Jove

  Into whose 'council' the poet will exalt Caesar.

• The Odes §3.27 Jove

  'Unconquered Jove,' whose wife Europa unknowingly is; a continent will bear her name.

• The Odes §4.4 Jupiter

  King of gods, who entrusted his eagle with rule over the birds, proved in Ganymede.

• The Odes §4.8 Jove

  At whose feasts the deified Hercules is present.

• The Odes §4.15 Jove

  'Our own Jove,' to whom Augustus restored the standards torn from the Parthians.

• The Epistles §1.1 Jove

  Chief god of the Roman pantheon, sky-father and guarantor of oaths and order.

• The Epodes §2 Jupiter

  Chief god of the Roman pantheon; 'thundering Jupiter' is the winter sky bringing rain and snow.

• The Satires §1.1 Jupiter

  Chief god of the Roman pantheon; here imagined puffing his cheeks in exasperation at men who reject the very change they begged for.