Note 642 — BOOK THE TWENTIETH
Theodore Alois Buckley translation · Edition 4
Footnote 642: (return) Hor. Od. i. xxii. 2: “Intonsum, pueri, dicite Cynthium.” Tibull. i. 4, 37: “Solis æterna est Phœbo, Bacchoque juventa: hanc decet intonsus crinis utrumque Deum.” Various reasons are assigned for this; such as, “quia occidendo et renascendo semper est juvenior,” Fulgent. Myth. i. 17; or, “quod ipse sit sol, et sol ignis est, qui nunquam senescit,” Lutat. on Stat. Theb. i. 694. The inhabitants of Hieropolis, however, worshipped a bearded Apollo.—Macr. Sat. i. 17.