Neptune

Reading notes

• The Art of Poetry §60-72 Neptune

  God of the sea; here invoked for great harbor-works that, like all mortal achievements, must perish.

• The Odes §1.5 the god who is mighty over the sea

  Neptune, to whom a survivor of shipwreck dedicates his wet garments — here a figure for love's wreck.

• The Odes §1.28 Neptune

  God of the sea, with Jupiter the source of the reward promised the dutiful sailor.

• The Odes §3.28 Neptune

  On whose festal day the wine is broached and the song begun.

• The Epistles §1.11 Neptune

  Roman god of the sea; by metonymy the sea itself.

• The Epodes §7 Neptune

  God of the sea, here standing by metonymy for the sea on which Roman blood has been spilt.