Note 619 — Chapter X · MODERN LATIN POETRY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
The invocation of a patron saint is an essentially pagan undertaking, as has been noticed at p. 57. On a more serious occasion, comp. Sannazaro’s Elegy: ‘In festo die divi Nazarii martyris.’ Sann. Elegiae, 1535, fol. 166 sqq.