Monday, January 19, 2026
Short Prayer
Suitable for the start of drinking (Vergil, Aeneid 1.734, tr. H. Rushton Fairclough):
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May Bacchus, giver of joy, be near ...Servius on Vergil, Aeneid 1.734 (vol. I, p. 301 of Editio Harvardiana):
adsit laetitiae Bacchus dator ...
adsis 'alii' ap. Serv.
alii 'adsis' legunt, secundum quos Bacchus aut antiptosis est aut antiquus vocativus, ut (XII 192) socer arma Latinus habeto. bene autem addidit dator laetitiae, quia est et dator furoris.
